noun Download 🔗Share The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. Examples : "That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful." animal biology body nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Dead skin on a sore or ulcer. Examples : "This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn." medicine body disease anatomy physiology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To shed (skin). Examples : "Snakes slough their skin periodically." physiology body biology animal Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To slide off (like a layer of skin). Examples : "A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off." physiology biology anatomy body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To discard. Examples : "East sloughed a heart." action process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. (compare ditch) Examples : ""Dude, Kaydn and Jarom are totally sloughing today!"" education action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A muddy or marshy area. Examples : "After the heavy rain, the hiking trail disappeared into a series of muddy sloughs. " environment area geography nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (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. Examples : "We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough." geography environment nature area ecology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide. Examples : "During low tide, many boats sit in the mud of the sloughs that branch off the main river channel. " geography environment nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A state of depression. Examples : "John is in a slough." mind condition emotion Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes. Examples : "Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems." geography environment nature geology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading