slough in Gujarati ગુજરાતી
slough in Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ
slough in Marathi मराठी
slough in Sindhi سنڌي
slough in English
- slough⇄noun 1. a soft, deep, muddy place; mud hole.
Ex. We visited sloughs that always have water, no matter the severity of the drought (William O. Douglas).
2. a swampy place; marshy inlet; slew; slue.
3. (Figurative.) hopeless discouragem - slough⇄noun 1. the old dead skin shed or cast off by a snake.
2. a layer off dead skin or tissue that drops or falls off as a wound or sore heals.
3. (Figurative.) anything that has been or can be shed or cast off.
Ex. As people became civil - slough⇄slough (1), noun, verb.
- slough⇄slough (2), noun, verb.
- slough⇄v.i. to be shed or cast; drop or fall.
Ex. A scab sloughs off when new skin takes its place.
Also, sluff. - slough⇄v.i. to plod heavily; slog.
Ex. They're here in Toronto and not sloughing through some Vietnamese rice paddy (Canadian Saturday Night). - slough⇄v.t. to swallow up in a slough.
Ex. Somebody ... got nearly sloughed up in one of the great marsh ditches (Eleanor Ormerod). - slough⇄v.t. 1. to drop off; throw off; shed.
Ex. Through the processes of excision and sloughing of certain structures which contain wastes, plants get rid of wastes (Harbaugh and Goodrich). (Figurative.) The former thief sloughed his bad ways and became