Slough

Quick meaning: Slough is a noun meaning The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

Meaning

The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

More Meanings

1. Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
2. (transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.
3. (intransitive) To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.
4. (transitive, card games) To discard.
5. (intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
6. A marshy or muddy area.
7. (Northern US, Southern US) 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.

Example Sentences

This skin is being sloughed.

Snakes slough their skin periodically.

That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.

This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.

Word Forms

• sloughs
• sloughing
• sloughed

Synonyms for slough

Depending on context, synonyms include ditch, shed, molt, exuviate, moult.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exuviate, moult, molt, shed, mire, marsh.

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