noun. A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.

noun. A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.

noun. A state of deep despair or moral degradation.

noun. The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or amphibian.

noun. A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation.

noun. An outer layer or covering that is shed or removed.

intransitive verb. To be cast off or shed; come off.

intransitive verb. To shed a slough.

intransitive verb. To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.

intransitive verb. To cast off or shed (skin or a covering).

intransitive verb. To discard or disregard as undesirable or unfavorable.

phrasal verb. To work less intensely than is required or expected.

A Middle English variant of slow.

To come off as a slough: often with off.

To cast off a slough.

To cast off as a slough; in pathology, to throw off, as a dead mass from an ulcer or a wound.

noun. A hole full of deep mud or mire; a quagmire of considerable depth and comparatively small extent of surface.

noun. (slö), A marshy hollow; a reedy pond; also, a long shallow ravine, or open creek, which becomes partly or wholly dry in summer.

noun. Synonyms Swamp, etc. See marsh.

noun. The skin of a serpent, usually the cast skin; also, any part of an animal that is naturally shed or molted; a cast; an exuvium.

noun. In pathology, a dead part of tissue which separates from the surrounding living tissue, and is cast off in the act of sloughing.

noun. A husk.

imp. of slee, to slay. Slew.

noun. The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.

noun. The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

intransitive verb. To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away

transitive verb. To cast off; to discard as refuse.

noun. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

noun. A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

noun. a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will.

adjective. Slow.

noun. The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

noun. Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.

verb. To shed (skin).

verb. To discard.

noun. A muddy or marshy area.

noun. A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.

noun. A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.

noun. A state of depression.

noun. A small pond, often alkaine, many but not all are formed by glacial potholes.

noun. a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)

noun. any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)

noun. a hollow filled with mud

verb. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

noun. necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass

"On Mitchell Slough, a part of the Bitterroot River, the billionaire discount broker Charles Schwab and the singer Huey Lewis have banded together with other landowners to argue that the slough is actually an irrigation ditch and shouldn't be open to the public."

sloughing phagedena  

sloughed  sloughing  

bog  cover  covering  natural covering  peat bog  

bluff  bruff  buff  cuff  duff  

abandon  baygall  bilge  bilgewater  bind  

slee  sloo  slue  

sloughed  sloughes  sloughing  sloughs