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Definitions for Slough

[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. Northern U.S. and Canadian . a marshy or reedy pool, pond, inlet, backwater, or the like.
[4] a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness.
[5] the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
[6] Pathology . a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue.
[7] anything that is shed or cast off.
[8] Cards . a discard.
[9] to be or become shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake.
[10] to cast off a slough.
[11] Pathology . to separate from the sound flesh, as a slough.
[12] Cards . to discard a card or cards.
[13] to dispose or get rid of; cast (often followed by off ): to slough off a bad habit.
[14] to shed as or like a slough.
[15] Cards . to discard (cards).
[16] slough over , to treat as slight or trivial: to slough over a friend's mistake.
[17] a hollow filled with mud; bog
[18] (sluː ) US and Canadian (in the prairies) a large hole where water collects or the water in such a hole (in the northwest) a sluggish side channel of a river (on the Pacific coast) a marshy saltwater inlet
[19] despair or degradation
[20] any outer covering that is shed, such as the dead outer layer of the skin of a snake, the cellular debris in a wound, etc
[21] Also: sluff bridge a discarded card
[22] (often foll by off) to shed (a skin, etc) or (of a skin, etc) to be shed
[23] Also: sluff bridge to discard (a card or cards)
[24] an industrial town in SE central England, in Slough unitary authority, Berkshire; food products, high-tech industries. Pop: 126 276 (2001)
[25] a unitary authority in SE central England, in Berkshire. Pop: 118 800 (2003 est). Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles)

Words related to Slough

marshland, fen, mire, glade, quagmire, mud, moor, marsh, swampland, bog, quag, morass, swale, polder, wetland, exuviate, give, molt, sprinkle, slip

Words nearby Slough

slotted spoon, slotter, slouch, slouch hat, slouchy, slough, slough off, slovak, slovakia, slovakian, sloven

Origin of Slough

21250–1300; Middle English slughe, slouh skin of a snake; cognate with German Schlauch skin, bag

Other words from Slough

slough·i·ness , noun
slough·y , adjective
un·sloughed , adjective
un·slough·ing , adjective

Word origin for Slough

C13: of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German slū husk, German Schlauch hose, Norwegian slō fleshy part of a horn

Synonyms for Slough

bog, bottoms, fen, glade, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, mud, polder, quag, quagmire, swale, swampland, wetland, everglade, holm, muskeg, peat bog