slough

[US]/slaʊ/
[UK]/slʌf/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. shedding of the skin; a swamp
vt. cause to sink into a swamp
vi. cast off; trudge

Phrases & Collocations

slough off

slough through

Example Sentences

the economic slough of the interwar years.

Slough off dry skin once a week.

to slough off unimportant verbiage

The snake's skin sloughs off.

slough off former associates.

He was not able to slough off the memories of the past.

Responsibilities are not sloughed off so easily.

a snake sloughs off its old skin.

doctors sloughing through swampy lowlands

while everyone is having a blast I am sinking into the Slough of Despond.

he is concerned to slough off the country's bad environmental image.

Objective To determine calcium,iron,manganese and zinc in the snake slough and periostracum cicada.

Real-world Examples

The metal is then got rid of when the bark is sloughed off.

Source: The Economist - Technology

Today you learned that meteors are small bits of interplanetary debris sloughed off by asteroids and comets.

Source: Crash Course Astronomy

What are they -- sloughing each other clean like elephants?

Source: Modern Family - Season 07

Ischemic and infarcted tissue results in the sloughing off of intestinal mucosal tissue, blood, and mucus into the gut.

Source: Osmosis - Digestion

Jessical Biel adds sugar to her regular cleanser when she wants to slough away dead skin.

Source: Beauty and Fashion English

As they form teeth, odontoblasts move inward, while ameloblasts move out and slough off when they hit the surface.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

Just understand in context which word it is, " slough" or " slough" .

Source: Engvid-Adam Course Collection

The brown color was not healthy coral but dead tissue sloughing off the skeleton, almost as if it had melted.

Source: New York Times

I found myself at the edge of a deep slough.

Source: Cross Creek (Part 2)

Another word for that is " slough" .

Source: Engvid-Adam Course Collection

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