Slough

Noun

 * 1) The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
 * That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
 * 1) Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
 * This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.

Verb

 * 1)  To shed (skin).
 * A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.

Noun

 * 1)  A muddy or marshy area.
 * 2) * 1883 "That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. &mdash; Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
 * 3)  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.
 * We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
 * 1)  A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
 * The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
 * 1) A state of depression.
 * John is in a slough.

Adjectives for Slough
dreadful; pestiferous;  humble;  deadly; dreaded.

Thesaurus
abandon, baygall, bilge, bilgewater, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, caries, carrion, case, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, chuckhole, clutch, complication, crunch, decay, decomposition, deep-six, desquamation, discard, dishwater, dispose of, ditch, ditchwater, dry gangrene, dry rot, dump, eighty-six, eliminate, embarrassing position, embarrassment, everglade, exuviae, exuviate, fen, fenland, fine how-do-you-do, foulness, gangrene, garbage, gas gangrene, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, glade, hell to pay, hobble, hog wallow, holm, hot water, how-do-you-do, husk, imbroglio, jam, jettison, jilt, junk, loblolly, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mess, mire, mix, moist gangrene, molt, moor, moorland, morass, mortification, moss, muckhole, mud, mud flat, mud puddle, mudhole, necrosis, necrotic tissue, noma, offal, offscourings, parlous straits, part with, pass, peat bog, pickle, pinch, plight, pod, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, puddle, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, quagmire, quicksand, rancidity, rancidness, rankness, refuse, reject, remove, riffraff, rot, rottenness, salt marsh, scrap, scrape, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, shed, shell, shuck, skin, slip, slob land, slop, slops, sough, sphacelation, sphacelus, spoilage, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, swill, taiga, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tooth decay, toss overboard, tricky spot, unholy mess, wallow, wash

Etymology 1
From, akin to Middle High German sluch: (whence Danish slug: and German Schlauch:).

Etymology 2
From sloh:, probably from.

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * Armenian:
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 * Serbian: svlak


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: kuollut iho


 * French:

Verb

 * Arabic: انسلخ
 * Czech: svléci kůži


 * Finnish:
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Noun

 * Finnish: ,
 * Norwegian:, gjørmehull


 * Portuguese: atoleiro, lamaçal , pântano
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Anagrams

 * ghouls, loughs