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slough
  1. (Britain) A muddy or marshy area.
  2. (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.
  3. (Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
  4. A state of depression.
  5. (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Such ignorance comes from not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough.”
sluff
  1. Alternative spelling of slough (skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
  2. Alternative spelling of slough (dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
  3. An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
slough
  1. The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
  2. Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Such ignorance comes from not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough.”
sloughing
  1. Something sloughed off.
  2. (zoology) The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.
sloughings
  1. plural of sloughing
sloughs
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