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slough1    Audio Help   [slou for 1, 2, 4; sloo for 3] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region.
2.a hole full of mire, as in a road.
3.Also, slew, slue. Northern U.S. and Canadian. a marshy or reedy pool, pond, inlet, backwater, or the like.
4.a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE slōh; c. MLG slōch, MHG sluoche ditch]
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slough2    Audio Help   [sluhf] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
2.Pathology. a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue.
3.anything that is shed or cast off.
4.Cards. a discard.
–verb (used without object)
5.to be or become shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake.
6.to cast off a slough.
7.Pathology. to separate from the sound flesh, as a slough.
8.Cards. to discard a card or cards.
–verb (used with object)
9.to dispose or get rid of; cast (often fol. by off): to slough off a bad habit.
10.to shed as or like a slough.
11.Cards. to discard (cards).
—Verb phrase
12.slough over, to treat as slight or trivial: to slough over a friend's mistake.
Also, sluff.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME slughe, slouh skin of a snake; c. G Schlauch skin, bag]

—Related forms
slough·i·ness, noun
sloughy, adjective

—Synonyms 6. molt.
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slough 1    Audio Help   (slōō, slou)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.
  2. also slue A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.
  3. A state of deep despair or moral degradation.


[Middle English, from Old English slōh.]

slough'y adj.
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slough 2    Audio Help   (slŭf)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or amphibian.
  2. Medicine A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation.
  3. An outer layer or covering that is shed.

v.   sloughed, slough·ing, sloughs

v.   intr.
  1. To be cast off or shed; come off: The snake's skin sloughs off.
  2. To shed a slough.
  3. Medicine To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.

v.   tr.
To discard as undesirable or unfavorable; get rid of: slough off former associates.


[Middle English slughe.]

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Slough    Audio Help   (slou)  Pronunciation Key 
A municipal borough of southeast England, a residential and industrial suburb of London. Population: 126,000.

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slough  (n.)
"muddy place," O.E. sloh "muddy place," probably from P.Gmc. *slokhaz.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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slough  (v.)
"cast off" (as the skin of a snake or other animal), 1720, originally of diseased tissue, from M.E. noun meaning the skin thus cast off (c.1300), probably related to O.S. sluk "skin of a snake," M.H.G. sluch "snakeskin," M.L.G. slu "husk, peel, skin," from P.Gmc. *sluk-.

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slough

noun
1. necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass [syn: gangrene] 
2. a hollow filled with mud 
3. a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) 
4. any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) 

verb
1. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed] 

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slough    Audio Help   (slŭf)  Pronunciation Key 
Noun   The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or an amphibian.

Verb   To shed an outer layer of skin.

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Slough

Slew\ (sl[=oo]), n. [See Slough a wet place.] A wet place; a river inlet.

The praire round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews. --T. Roosevelt.
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Slough

Sloo\, or Slue \Slue\, n. A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.
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Slough

Slough\, a. Slow. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Slough

Slough\, n. [OE. slogh, slough, AS. sl[=o]h a hollow place; cf. MHG. sl[=u]ch an abyss, gullet, G. schlucken to swallow; also Gael. & Ir. sloc a pit, pool. ditch, Ir. slug to swallow. Gr. ????? to hiccough, to sob.]

1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. --Chaucer.

He's here stuck in a slough. --Milton.

2. [Pronounced sl[=oo].] A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Note: [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.]

Slough grass (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will.
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Slough

Slough\, obs. imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. --Chaucer.
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Slough

Slough\, n. [OE. slugh, slouh; cf. MHG. sl?ch the skin of a serpent, G. schlauch a skin, a leather bag or bottle.]

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

2. (Med.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
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