slough

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I found myself at the edge of a deep slough.

Another word for that is " slough" .