Associations to the word «Sloughing»
Noun
- Snake
- Skin
- Tissue
- Berkshire
- Eton
- Discharge
- Buckinghamshire
- Upton
- Joaquin
- Uterus
- Flesh
- Langley
- Windsor
- Wetland
- Duct
- Burnham
- Levee
- Secretion
- Conditioning
- Bayou
- Fresno
- Swamp
- Cypress
- Gut
- Buena
- Debris
- Marsh
- Water
- Newbury
- Steamboat
- Sacramento
- Kern
- Guadalupe
- Estuary
- Bog
- Bucks
- Borough
- Jet
- Swindon
- Ulcer
- Filth
- Mud
- Guildford
- Cell
- Dose
- Wildlife
- Mateo
- Creek
- Blister
- Bone
- Thames
- Confluence
- Poplar
- Cordelia
- Watershed
- Refuge
- Keynes
- Fen
- Prairie
- Monterey
- Willow
- Hogg
- Pond
- Overflow
- Drainage
- Cache
- Vista
- Redwood
- Layer
- Sleeping
- Oxfordshire
- Wick
- Aldershot
- Slime
- Yellowstone
- Alligator
- Phantom
- Yukon
Adjective
Wiktionary
SLOUGH, noun. The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
SLOUGH, noun. Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
SLOUGH, verb. (transitive) To shed (skin).
SLOUGH, verb. (intransitive) To slide off (like a layer of skin).
SLOUGH, verb. (transitive) (card games) To discard.
SLOUGH, noun. (British) A muddy or marshy area.
SLOUGH, noun. (Eastern United States) 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.
SLOUGH, noun. (Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
SLOUGH, noun. A state of depression.
SLOUGH, noun. (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all are formed by glacial potholes.
SLOUGH, proper noun. A town in east Berkshire, and formerly in Buckinghamshire, close to Heathrow Airport
SLOUGH OF DESPOND, noun. A state of despondency.
SLOUGH OF DESPOND, noun. A state of disheartening hopelessness.
Dictionary definition
SLOUGH, noun. Necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass.
SLOUGH, noun. A hollow filled with mud.
SLOUGH, noun. A stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou).
SLOUGH, noun. Any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake).
SLOUGH, verb. Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring".
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