The meaning of SLOUGH is a place of deep mud or mire. How to use slough in a sentence. Did you know?

SLOUGH definition: a swamp or swamplike region. See examples of slough used in a sentence.

During the Second World War, Slough experienced a series of air raids, mostly in October 1940 (the largest number of people, five, dying as a result of a raid on the 13th), and an emergency hospital …

SLOUGH meaning: 1. (of some animals) to have a layer of skin come off: 2. a mental state of deep sadness and no…. Learn more.

You may also hear this word pronounced as "sluff." With this pronunciation, slough has a different meaning. A slough is typically used to describe wetlands. Sloughs along the edges of rivers form …

5 days ago · slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed) (transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.

slough 1 (slaʊ for 1,2,4; slu for 3 ) n. 1. an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region. 2. a hole full of mire, as in a road. 3. Also, slew, slue. a marshy pool, inlet, backwater, or the like.

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v. to (cause to) be shed or cast off, as the outer skin of a snake: [no object; (~ + off)] A snake's skin sloughs (off) every few months.[~ (+ off) + object] The snake sloughs (off) its skin. slough off, [~ + off …