Slough

What do we mean by slough?

A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire. noun

A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater. noun

A state of deep despair or moral degradation. noun

The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or amphibian. noun

A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation. noun

An outer layer or covering that is shed or removed. noun

To be cast off or shed; come off. intransitive verb

To shed a slough. intransitive verb

To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue. intransitive verb

To cast off or shed (skin or a covering). intransitive verb

To discard or disregard as undesirable or unfavorable. intransitive verb

To work less intensely than is required or expected. phrasal verb

A hole full of deep mud or mire; a quagmire of considerable depth and comparatively small extent of surface. noun

(slö), A marshy hollow; a reedy pond; also, a long shallow ravine, or open creek, which becomes partly or wholly dry in summer. noun

Synonyms Swamp, etc. See marsh. noun

A Middle English variant of slow.

The skin of a serpent, usually the cast skin; also, any part of an animal that is naturally shed or molted; a cast; an exuvium. noun

In pathology, a dead part of tissue which separates from the surrounding living tissue, and is cast off in the act of sloughing. noun

A husk. noun

To come off as a slough: often with off.

The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.

Words that are spelled similarly to slough:
slough, slouch, plough, blough, sough, lough, clough, shough, stough, swough, slouth.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word slough:
despond, feg, enl, maidenhead, estuarine, berkshire, eton, everglades, joaquin, herschel, kern, wetland, windsor, empties, jets, tidal, langley, monterey, wetlands, redwood, guadalupe, unitary, estuary, sacramento, watershed, wards, borough, vista, refuge, wildlife, stoke, marsh, creek, trading, drainage, grammar, moss, elect, estates, confluence, thames, tide, flora, tributary, mud, ward, mouth, portland, surrey, flows, estate, labour, pond, river, bay, lake, town, mars, canal, preserve, salt, council, delta, reading, constituency, landing, stream, arm, habitat, marine, election, flood, basin, san, contested, boundary, england, protected.

Words that rhyme with slough:
tough, buff, stuff, rough, enough, bluff, puff, cuff, rebuff, huff, snuff, duff, fluff, ruff, gruff, scuff, scruff, muff, tuff, guff, chuff, luff, foodstuff, hough, earmuff, spliff, handcuff, sluff, stough, bruff, ruffe, fisticuff, cluff, macduff, dyestuff, off the cuff, ruf, pluff, overstuff, knuff, shruff, shuff, mcduff, cream puff, acuff, sure enough, good enough, hot stuff, marshmallow fluff, in the buff, leboeuf, oddly enough, neck ruff, schuff, cuffe, get tough, sob stuff, soon enough, well enough, strangely enough, scottsbluff, small stuff, real stuff, create from raw stuff, trouser cuff, curiously enough, interestingly enough, goodnough, mcgough, dayhuff, lebouef, mcgeough, petstuff, piedboeuf, vakuf.

Adjectives that are often used to describe slough:
deep, small, large, black, necrotic, old, white, superficial, yellow, miry, central, grayish, dry, muddy, adherent, big, narrow, gray, grey, very, extensive, yellowish, shallow, dark, mucosal, veritable, soft, gangrenous, thick, wide, dirty, greyish, nearby, thin, perfect, moral, outlandish, bad, financial, vile, humble, tidal, vast, green, famous, moist, deepest, leather, whitish, bottomless, unbroken, hopeless, deeper, brown, foul, characteristic, dead, mere, tenacious, partial, awful, tough, dreadful, watery, reedy, impassable, broad, greenish, stagnant, stinking, dismal, circular, minute, subsequent, continuous, marshy, filthy, loose.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective slough:
grass, off, water, hay, formation, lands, hound, mesh, rynerson, holes, cake, loss, hole, office, anchovy, areas, separation, windsor.

Consonant match to slough:
sluff, slife.

Words that sound like slough:
slough, sluff, sluf, slife, slaf, suff, slf, sla, suf, slov, sloughed, slof, sloughs, sluh, sloughy, aleph, alef, oluf, spliff, sef, seph, slive, sif, siff, swif, syph, cif, ciff, cife, ceph, slev, cfe, syf, cfh, safe, slow, slave, sleeve, sleigh, slay, sloth, slug, slee, sleuth, sludge, slew, sleave, slaw, scuff, slav, saf, saif, slo, sloe, slu, sife, sligh, sley, cyph, slue, sli, saff, slowe, seif, sea life, sleeth, seef, sely, slock, slak, cely, saph, sloo, saef, slifer, slieve, seife, selloff, saaf, sloy, saw off, sclaff, see off, seaf, sief, sauf, scif, oliff, slai, slea, iliff, sayyaf, seal off, sell off, slaie, slaa, slewth, elliff, sell-off, slowh.