The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
To shed (skin).
Snakes slough their skin periodically.
To slide off (like a layer of skin).
A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
To discard.
East sloughed a heart.
(Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. (compare ditch)
"Dude, Kaydn and Jarom are totally sloughing today!"
A muddy or marshy area.
(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.
We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
(Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
A state of depression.
John is in a slough.
A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
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.