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slough

1
or sluff

[ sluhf ]

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)

  1. to be or become shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake.
  2. to cast off a slough.

    Synonyms:

  3. Pathology. to separate from the sound flesh, as a slough.
  4. Cards. to discard a card or cards.

verb (used with object)

  1. to dispose or get rid of; cast (often followed by off ):

    to slough off a bad habit.

  2. to shed as or like a slough.
  3. Cards. to discard (cards).

verb phrase

  1. to treat as slight or trivial:

    to slough over a friend's mistake.

slough

2

[ slou, sloo ]

noun

  1. a swamp or swamplike region.
  2. Also slew, slue. Northern U.S. and Canada. a usually shallow and slow-moving marshy or reedy body of water, such as one that provides drainage; wetland.
  3. a hole full of mud or wet soil, such as one in a road.
  4. a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness:

    Exercise was one thing that helped to lift me out of the slough of depression.

Slough

1

/ 蝉濒补蕣 /

noun

  1. an industrial town in SE central England, in Slough unitary authority, Berkshire; food products, high-tech industries. Pop: 126聽276 (2001)
  2. a unitary authority in SE central England, in Berkshire. Pop: 118聽800 (2003 est). Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

slough

2

/ 蝉濒补蕣 /

noun

  1. a hollow filled with mud; bog
  2. 蝉濒耻藧
    1. (in the prairies) a large hole where water collects or the water in such a hole
    2. (in the northwest) a sluggish side channel of a river
    3. (on the Pacific coast) a marshy saltwater inlet
  3. despair or degradation
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

slough

3

/ 蝉濒蕦蹿 /

noun

  1. any outer covering that is shed, such as the dead outer layer of the skin of a snake, the cellular debris in a wound, etc
  2. Alsosluff bridge a discarded card
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. often foll by off to shed (a skin, etc) or (of a skin, etc) to be shed
  2. Alsosluff bridge to discard (a card or cards)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

slough

Noun

  1. The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or an amphibian.

Verb

  1. To shed an outer layer of skin.
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Derived Forms

  • 藞蝉濒辞耻驳丑测, adjective
  • 藞蝉濒辞耻驳丑测, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蝉濒辞耻驳丑顎僫路苍别蝉蝉 noun
  • 蝉濒辞耻驳丑顎儁 adjective
  • 耻苍路蝉濒辞耻驳丑别诲顎 adjective
  • 耻苍路蝉濒辞耻驳丑顎僫苍驳 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of slough1

First recorded in 1250鈥1300; Middle English slough, slugh(e), slouh 鈥渟kin of a snake鈥; cognate with Low German sluwe, slu 鈥渉usk, peel,鈥 German Schlauch 鈥渟kin, wineskin, bag鈥

Origin of slough2

First recorded before 900; Middle English slough(e), slouh(e) 鈥渕uddy place, mud hole,鈥 Old English 蝉濒艒h, 蝉濒艒g; cognate with Middle Low German 蝉濒艒肠丑, Middle High German sluoche 鈥渄itch鈥; further origin uncertain
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of slough1

Old English 蝉濒艒丑; related to Middle High German sluoche ditch, Swedish slaga swamp

Origin of slough2

C13: of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German 蝉濒奴 husk, German Schlauch hose, Norwegian 蝉濒艒 fleshy part of a horn
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Rather than correct them, Liz decides to keep up the pretense 鈥 no great stretch for someone so used to sloughing off and trying on one alias after another.

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The MS Aurora, a 70-year-old cruise ship that inspired TV鈥檚 鈥楾he Love Boat,鈥 sits abandoned in a slough outside Stockton.

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Aiello, who has monitored environmental conditions at the slough for more than a decade, said he was shocked by the results.

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But consider adding on a scrub and sloughing off a layer or two of skin 鈥 it鈥檚 my favorite way to enter the new year.

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At a time when capitulating to the mainstream was regarded as selling out, R.E.M.鈥檚 move to a major label stung, as if the band had sloughed off its loyalists for the teeming masses.

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