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US
/ˈsɫəf/
]
VERB
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cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
our dog sheds every Spring
NOUN
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a hollow filled with mud
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
How To Use slough In A Sentence
- Finally, man-made ditches, as well as existing bayous, sloughs, and streams in the St. Francis Watershed, provide suitable habitat for P. capax.
- In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
- Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, and mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water.
- D.H. Hill's division was at White Oak Swamp Creek, a slough, and one of "despond" to us, draining to the Chickahominy. Generals, Confederate States of America, Biography, Soldiers, Louisiana, Southern States, Army, Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 9th., History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, United States, Campaigns, Military Life, Reconstruction.
- When performing face lifts, plastic surgeons may opt to undermine the skip flap less to decrease the risk of slough, which results in a less than optimal lift.
- Seeing the snake cast its old slough and glide forth renewed, he conceives, so in death man but sheds his fleshly exuvia, while the spirit emerges, regenerate. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
- My hope is that we will realize that there was a context to our friend's fall and humbly wonder what might happen to us if we ever found ourselves in a sustained slough of disillusionment, despair and spiritual darkness.
- Because you are wearing sandals you attend to your feet - slough the dead skin off, cream them, paint their toenails - they therefore look great.
- The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
- And then I have to push through the self-doubt what I call the Slough of Despond and emerge from the other side. Interview: Pat Murphy