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noun slaʊ 1A swamp. Example sentencesExamples - Conversely, the back lakes, sloughs and bayous are reasonably protected, almost certain to hold pockets of calm, clear water.
- The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
- The prairie sloughs are drying up this year but still a great blue heron rises, dips across the road and veers toward storm clouds massing in the west - the sound of one small engine, tires on pavement, turning wheels.
- The thought of the fathoms of water that once covered the very spot she stands on almost suffocates her; she feels bogged down in prairie grass and sloughs; she interiorizes the continental river system as if features of the human body.
- In the California Delta, the levee is the guiding force that funnels the 1,000 miles or so of rivers, sloughs, cuts, marshlands and other waterways through the surrounding terra firma.
- Many also survived in part because of a bird that seeks out the sloughs of the Cache and White Rivers in much the same manner that winter-weary northerners flock to sunnier climes when north winds begin to howl.
- The book traces the metamorphosis of this endangered ecosystem from rich wetlands to prosperous agricultural area, from saw grass and sloughs to sugar cane, winter vegetables and cattle.
- Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water.
- This expansive ‘river’ covered almost 11,000 square miles, creating a mosaic of ponds, sloughs, sawgrass, marshes, hardwood hammocks, and forested uplands.
- They also migrate through the interior in small numbers, spending time on lakeshores, alkaline ponds, and shores of sloughs and flooded fields.
- Finally, man-made ditches, as well as existing bayous, sloughs, and streams in the St. Francis Watershed, provide suitable habitat for P. capax.
- Throughout these valleys Red-necked Grebes are found on sloughs, ponds, lakes, and reservoirs, not on moving water.
- Creeks, sloughs, bayous, and swamps, including a large cypress swamp at the base of Crowley's Ridge, ran around the town.
- Manderson says he was surprised to learn, while looking at old aerial photos, that there used to be a large slough where the Foothills hospital is.
- He set up a blind in ‘the great marsh’ and a remote camera beside a slough, rigged to take a photo whenever a creature crossed its infrared beam.
- Marl prairie occurs within the zone intermediate between the permanently flooded sloughs and the drier pine-dominated high ground.
- Thin, faint yellow collars on trunks of cypress and tupelo rimming the old slough recorded the regression of recent flooding in the swamp.
- The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
- I walked him back down to the slough and heaved a stick into the water.
- Crappie and maybe a few largemouth bass had been the alleged focus of this June morning fishing a swamp slough in southeast Texas.
- 1.1North American A side channel or inlet, or a natural channel that is only sporadically filled with water.
in place names Elkhorn Slough Example sentencesExamples - The Marsh Trail starts from the back side of the ranch's visitor center and winds its way around a series of sloughs where you may spot a river otter.
- Cascading water and extensive berming recall the sloughs and dykes on the flat terrain of this Fraser River delta.
- The time to explore the sloughs, backwaters and tributaries of the Fraser River in an attempt to seek out aggressively feeding cutthroat is upon us.
- Hiking trails lace the central portion, where the river breaks down into channels and sloughs.
- Although welcome, the heavy rains in eastern Nebraska fell on ground so dry and hard that a substantial portion of the moisture ran off, overflowing some creeks and sloughs.
- In a subsequent survey, Clarke collected from 1 to 10 live specimens at nearly 100 sites located along a 70-km reach of the St. Francis River and an adjunct slough.
- Flying in, I had been mesmerized by sinuous curves of sloughs and streams which wove together, then apart, meandering toward the gulf.
- East Texas gets the best of it, and hunters with access to sloughs and river bottoms should reap some of the finest moments that waterfowling has to offer.
- Great Blue Herons inhabit sheltered, shallow bays and inlets, sloughs, marshes, wet meadows, shores of lakes, and rivers.
- Then there were endless chunks of timber washed from the forest floor into the slough when the river flooded once a decade.
- The slurry is applied raw, running off into waterways such as creeks, sloughs and ditches and enforcement of manure regulations where runoff is concerned is nothing short of a joke.
- As the sun breaks behind the bush into a crystal clear sky, a few wild water buffalo - leftover imports from more than a century ago - wallow in the sloughs on either side of the road.
- The mud then spews under the Gapstow Bridge to become a muddy slough that inundates a good part of The Pond, leaving the rest of The Pond aswirl with oil slicks, sludge, and Dixie cups.
- A slough, still wet on one side of the road, dried up on the other.
2A situation characterized by lack of progress or activity. the economic slough of the interwar years Example sentencesExamples - He knows that the return of Ilsa can only send Rick into a slough of self-pity, and so Sam contrives to break the fall.
- For Scotland's future credibility, teachers need to start promoting politics as a high calling in need of rescuing from the slough of self-serving mediocrity in which it is presently mired.
- They must face capitalist reality or sink in a slough of socialist delusion, dragging Scotland down with them.
- In this, they are merely extending the New Labour ethos on cleaning up the slough that is modern Britain.
- My hope is that we will realize that there was a context to our friend's fall and humbly wonder what might happen to us if we ever found ourselves in a sustained slough of disillusionment, despair and spiritual darkness.
- Today, even in the slough of a prolonged depression, it's still the second biggest economy in the world, with a GDP as large as Britain's, France's and Germany's combined.
- Gilman's heroine, Dana, is a 38-year-old New York artist in a slough of depression which intensifies when her latest exhibition bombs.
- But, in the meantime, he was dragging Greenock up from a slough of despondency and defiantly offering no apologies for snapping up the best available talent.
- The late 1980s saw me drift into a slough of depression that again led me back to music, this time the most bleak, unconsoling variety you could imagine.
- That is making it nearly impossible to craft monetary policy that is both hawkish on inflation, and doesn't throw huge economies deeper into the slough of economic despond.
- Part of it was down to the foreordained cycle of his humors, which had dumped him into the slough once again.
- Getting Africa out of the slough of famine is still an uphill task.
- While in recent years his work may have fallen into something of a slough of mediocrity, these works are drawn from the period when he was at his strongest, the two decades between 1961 and the early 1980s.
- But for rugby at any rate, it looks as though there is a chance that Scotland may soon exit from the slough of despondency in which we have recently wallowed.
Origin Old English slōh, slō(g), of unknown origin. A slough is a swamp (slōh in Old English), and a slough of despond a condition of despondency, hopelessness, and gloom. The phrase comes from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), where it is the name of a deep boggy place between the City of Destruction and the gate at the beginning of Christian's journey. Slump (late 17th century) originally meant to fall in a bog and probably came from the sound that would be made. The economic sense is late 19th century. Slough in southern England also takes its name from Old English slōh, not the most appealing of origins. To add to the unglamorous town's image problems, the English poet John Betjeman wrote of it in 1937: ‘Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! / It isn't fit for humans now.’ The slough meaning the skin shed by a snake is Middle English and originally meant ‘skin’ in English. It may be related to Low German sluwe ‘husk, peel’.
Rhymes bluff, buff, chough, chuff, cuff, duff, enough, fluff, gruff, guff, huff, luff, puff, rough, ruff, scruff, scuff, snuff, stuff, Tough, tuff verb slʌfsləf 1usually slough something offwith object Shed or remove (a layer of dead skin) a snake sloughs off its old skin exfoliate once a week to slough off any dry skin Example sentencesExamples - Martin looked at the barman, a balding, pale skinned man whose doughy flesh looked to be sloughing from him like a well boiled dumpling.
- ‘We often neglect the skin on our bodies,’ says Evans, who makes sure to give herself an in-shower sloughing with a body scrub (which can get rid of dead skin cells and make skin smooth) every other day.
- Eventually the tissue is sloughed at the tentacle tips.
- I walked back up the hill to the motel, relieved to have sloughed the prickliness of the pub.
- In severe cases of trench foot, tissue injury is serious enough to cause skin sloughing and subsequent gangrenous change.
- This is in addition to host-derived proteins, such its pancreatic and intestinal enzymes, mucins, glycoproteins, and sloughed epithelial cells.
- Having sloughed the oppressive confines of the mine, instinct takes over.
- But, as the play moves back in time, she beautifully sheds guilt and stress like a snake sloughing its skin.
- Janet also emphasized more self-care activities and routines of renewal, like warm baths at night and the use of an essential oil salt scrub which sloughs dead cells while filling the room with heavenly plant energy.
- Certainly, the ability of landowners to slough taxes onto others turns them from watchdogs of the treasury into raiders, since so much of public spending creates new unearned increments to land value.
- Then it turned into a carnivore, sloughed its armour and acquired a new set of biological and chemical defences.
- In addition, the gangrenous areas on his toes had sloughed and been replaced almost entirely by healthy tissue.
- The question of when to adhere to standards and when to slough them off in favor of something better is a perennial one in the free software world.
- The lotion gently sloughs away dead skin cells and leaves your skin feeling as smooth as silk.
- Because you are wearing sandals you attend to your feet - slough the dead skin off, cream them, paint their toenails - they therefore look great
- Pushing back your cuticles allows the nail to grow with fewer ridges and less scraggly splitting; dead skin is easily sloughed away by the towel.
- Outside, the pavement was littered with peeling strips of grayish-white gunk that had sloughed from its sides like dead skin.
- It may take that long for the skin to slough residual mite debris and for the allergic reaction to subside.
- Since independence, the yoke of French influence has not entirely been sloughed.
- So what we're doing is collecting sloughed skin.
Synonyms dispose of, discard, throw away, throw out, get rid of, toss out shed, jettison, scrap, cast aside/off, repudiate, abandon, relinquish, drop, dispense with, have done with, reject, shrug off, throw on the scrapheap informal chuck (away/out), fling away, dump, ditch, axe, bin, junk, get shut of British informal get shot of North American informal trash archaic forsake - 1.1 Get rid of (something undesirable or no longer required)
he is concerned to slough off the country's bad environmental image Example sentencesExamples - Major League Baseball has proposed sloughing off a couple of underperforming teams.
- In a heartbeat, all responsibility sloughs away.
- The Berlin Wall has fallen, people are more self-interested, the level of interest in politics has waned, sovereignty has been sloughed off, family structures have crumbled.
- But the country has yet to slough off its planned economy completely.
- Only in death could Kennedy's ` star image ' completely slough off the documented unevenness of his national popularity.
- Last week, Seagate announced plans to slough off close to 3,000 workers, hoping to improve its bottom line.
- Germany and Japan have, in some measure, sloughed off their post-1945 pacifism.
- Family shrines are denuded as children of princes, chiefs, priests, village headmen, and elders slough off ancient beliefs and sell or burn a heritage they abhor.
- None of this will persuade committed gay leftists to slough off their own political agenda, nor should it.
- The Indian side appeared famished for most part of the tournament, an outfit that seemed to have sloughed off its competitive edge.
- Once acclimated and having sloughed off her Old World vestiges, she seemed to have turned into an "American."
- Almost the whole of Europe has sloughed off its addiction to the notion of royalty.
- But until they slough off that inhibition they will fight the opposition with one hand tied behind their back.
- Anyone who has ever worked in my shop will verify that I tend to slough off the nasty chores on someone else whenever I can.
- His photographs express his contradictions, his uneasiness about the way he is, they are a way of sloughing off some of that guilt.
- It cannot begin its own work until it has sloughed off all its superstitious regard for the past.
- For I had always held that revenge was a motive alien to modem, civilized man, a primitive drive, a blood-lust that human nature had sloughed off.
- The twenty-dollar gift may allow him to slough off the backwardness of the Old World.
- It was an attitude that sloughed off responsibility for quality control onto regulatory authorities.
- Romania supposedly arose in 1989 to slough off communist dictatorship.
Synonyms dispose of, discard, throw away, throw out, get rid of, toss out - 1.2slough offno object (of dead skin) drop off; be shed.
it is a rare skin disease in which the skin sloughs off Example sentencesExamples - It appears that the bands of fibres can remain intact and functional right up to, or near to, the point at which they are sloughed away with the remaining periderm.
- Finally the skin sloughs away and the muscles fray out resulting in what resembles a hairy mane.
- This facial exfoliator uses smooth rice granules mixed into a creamy paste to gently slough off dead, dull skin.
- Body scrubs help slough away dry, dead skin to reveal the baby-soft texture that makes your mate want to reach out and touch.
- It's what we reach for to gently slough away dry skin.
- A loofah aids your detox by stimulating circulation and sloughing off dead cells and other waste that collects on your skin.
- Coffee grounds can be used to slough away dead skin cells and stimulate circulation.
- Exfoliating regularly also helps slough off potential milia-causing dead skin cells.
- During your bath or shower, let your feet enjoy warm water for a few minutes, then cleanse with a gentle, non-irritating cleanser and a foot brush or washcloth, working between the toes and scrubbing the heels to slough off dead skin.
- As the outer layer of skin sloughs off, stem cells in the dermis rush to repair and replace those buffed away.
- This is achieved using an intense pulsed light laser that sloughs off dead skin cells and encourages a new layer of cells to come to the surface.
- ‘The circular motion helps slough away that white membrane, which is dead cuticle skin,’ Kay says.
- Three steps: slough away dead skin, moisturize, and protect.
- It really tightens the skin, sloughs off dead cells, and leaves you with a firm, bright complexion.
- The fine art of exfoliation; what ingredients should I look for when sloughing off dulling, dead skin cells?
- This body polish will help boost the skin's circulation and will slough off dead skin cells, leaving a healthy glow.
- Then a whirring noise started up and a brush ran over my skin, allegedly to encourage the sloughing off of dead cells and to stimulate my circulation.
- Skin may be sloughed off following treatment, but scarring is uncommon.
- Nonchemical exfoliators such as alpha-hydroxy acids and beta-hydroxy acids loosen dead skin cells so they slough off more efficiently.
- Skin-nourishing bath ingredients include oatmeal, which softens and exfoliates skin, milk and oil, which contain fat and lock in moisture, and salt, which sloughs off dead skin.
- Friction from rubbing salt over the body improves circulation, sloughs off dead cells, and softens the skin.
Synonyms dispose of, throw away, throw out, get rid of, toss out
2slough away/downno object (of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression. an eternal rain of silt sloughs down from the edges of the continents Example sentencesExamples - There, seepage could erode and slough away prized fossil-bearing formations.
noun slʌfsləf mass nounThe dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh. the drugs can cause blistering and slough Example sentencesExamples - Eight percent of wounds in the standard care group had black eschar, 42% were covered in yellow slough, and 50% had a red base.
- Although no scientific studies are available to support these claims, clinicians report that thin layers of slough or fibrin buildup on the wound bed can be covered with a selective enzymatic debriding agent prior to sponge application.
- Venous ulcers are typically shallow, irregularly shaped, and contain fibrous slough.
- Hypertonic saline dressings are not appropriate for minimally draining wounds or wounds covered with dehydrated slough or eschar; these dressings depend on wound moisture to moisten them.
- Furthermore, epidermal slough - or separation of epidermis from the dermal layer-has been observed following the placement of frozen allograft on the wound bed.
- Two types of necrotic tissue may appear in a wound: slough and eschar.
- Necrotic tissue, in the form of yellow slough, filled 10% to 20% of all 3 wound beds.
- The wound bed was 80% red nongranulation tissue and 20% yellow slough; it was dry with a minimal amount of tan drainage.
- When using a nonselcctive enzyme, limit its application to the necrotic or slough tissue and avoid applying it to viable tissue, such as the surrounding wound area.
- Typically wounds do not epithelialize until the black/yellow slough has come off the surface and healthy granulation tissue is apparent.
- One challenge is differentiating yellow slough from tendons.
- Papain/urea debriding ointment is indicated for the debridement of necrotic tissue and liquefaction of slough in acute and chronic lesions.
- If the wound bed is partially obscured by slough or eschar, the ability to stage before debridement depends on the type of tissue visualized.
- The wound base is 85% slough and 15% granulation tissue.
- The wound bed contains a significant amount of slough, with signs and symptoms of infection, including increased redness and exudate, and pain.
- The most common complication of the surgery is skin-flap slough, leading to a recurrence of the problem.
- Transparent film dressings maintain a moist environment, promoting granulation tissue formation and autolytic debridement of slough and eschar.
- When performing face lifts, plastic surgeons may opt to undermine the skip flap less to decrease the risk of slough, which results in a less than optimal lift.
- A variation of the usual procedure may be to undermine the skin flap less, which will help decrease the chance of slough or skin deterioration.
- Descriptors such as granulation tissue, slough, or eschar are generally used to define tissue type.
Origin Middle English (as a noun denoting a skin, especially the outer skin shed by a snake): perhaps related to Low German slu(we) 'husk, peel'. The verb dates from the early 18th century. proper nounslaʊ A town in south-eastern England to the west of London; population 119,400 (est. 2009).
Rhymes allow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, chow, ciao, cow, dhow, Dow, endow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, mow, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), pow, prow, row, scow, sough, sow, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao nounslou 1A swamp. Example sentencesExamples - I walked him back down to the slough and heaved a stick into the water.
- Many also survived in part because of a bird that seeks out the sloughs of the Cache and White Rivers in much the same manner that winter-weary northerners flock to sunnier climes when north winds begin to howl.
- He set up a blind in ‘the great marsh’ and a remote camera beside a slough, rigged to take a photo whenever a creature crossed its infrared beam.
- Manderson says he was surprised to learn, while looking at old aerial photos, that there used to be a large slough where the Foothills hospital is.
- Finally, man-made ditches, as well as existing bayous, sloughs, and streams in the St. Francis Watershed, provide suitable habitat for P. capax.
- The book traces the metamorphosis of this endangered ecosystem from rich wetlands to prosperous agricultural area, from saw grass and sloughs to sugar cane, winter vegetables and cattle.
- Throughout these valleys Red-necked Grebes are found on sloughs, ponds, lakes, and reservoirs, not on moving water.
- Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water.
- Conversely, the back lakes, sloughs and bayous are reasonably protected, almost certain to hold pockets of calm, clear water.
- Creeks, sloughs, bayous, and swamps, including a large cypress swamp at the base of Crowley's Ridge, ran around the town.
- This expansive ‘river’ covered almost 11,000 square miles, creating a mosaic of ponds, sloughs, sawgrass, marshes, hardwood hammocks, and forested uplands.
- Thin, faint yellow collars on trunks of cypress and tupelo rimming the old slough recorded the regression of recent flooding in the swamp.
- The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
- They also migrate through the interior in small numbers, spending time on lakeshores, alkaline ponds, and shores of sloughs and flooded fields.
- The thought of the fathoms of water that once covered the very spot she stands on almost suffocates her; she feels bogged down in prairie grass and sloughs; she interiorizes the continental river system as if features of the human body.
- Marl prairie occurs within the zone intermediate between the permanently flooded sloughs and the drier pine-dominated high ground.
- The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
- In the California Delta, the levee is the guiding force that funnels the 1,000 miles or so of rivers, sloughs, cuts, marshlands and other waterways through the surrounding terra firma.
- Crappie and maybe a few largemouth bass had been the alleged focus of this June morning fishing a swamp slough in southeast Texas.
- The prairie sloughs are drying up this year but still a great blue heron rises, dips across the road and veers toward storm clouds massing in the west - the sound of one small engine, tires on pavement, turning wheels.
- 1.1North American A side channel or inlet, or a natural channel that is only sporadically filled with water.
Example sentencesExamples - Flying in, I had been mesmerized by sinuous curves of sloughs and streams which wove together, then apart, meandering toward the gulf.
- Then there were endless chunks of timber washed from the forest floor into the slough when the river flooded once a decade.
- Although welcome, the heavy rains in eastern Nebraska fell on ground so dry and hard that a substantial portion of the moisture ran off, overflowing some creeks and sloughs.
- The slurry is applied raw, running off into waterways such as creeks, sloughs and ditches and enforcement of manure regulations where runoff is concerned is nothing short of a joke.
- Hiking trails lace the central portion, where the river breaks down into channels and sloughs.
- The Marsh Trail starts from the back side of the ranch's visitor center and winds its way around a series of sloughs where you may spot a river otter.
- Great Blue Herons inhabit sheltered, shallow bays and inlets, sloughs, marshes, wet meadows, shores of lakes, and rivers.
- A slough, still wet on one side of the road, dried up on the other.
- As the sun breaks behind the bush into a crystal clear sky, a few wild water buffalo - leftover imports from more than a century ago - wallow in the sloughs on either side of the road.
- East Texas gets the best of it, and hunters with access to sloughs and river bottoms should reap some of the finest moments that waterfowling has to offer.
- Cascading water and extensive berming recall the sloughs and dykes on the flat terrain of this Fraser River delta.
- The time to explore the sloughs, backwaters and tributaries of the Fraser River in an attempt to seek out aggressively feeding cutthroat is upon us.
- In a subsequent survey, Clarke collected from 1 to 10 live specimens at nearly 100 sites located along a 70-km reach of the St. Francis River and an adjunct slough.
- The mud then spews under the Gapstow Bridge to become a muddy slough that inundates a good part of The Pond, leaving the rest of The Pond aswirl with oil slicks, sludge, and Dixie cups.
2A situation characterized by lack of progress or activity. the economic slough of the interwar years Example sentencesExamples - But for rugby at any rate, it looks as though there is a chance that Scotland may soon exit from the slough of despondency in which we have recently wallowed.
- Getting Africa out of the slough of famine is still an uphill task.
- They must face capitalist reality or sink in a slough of socialist delusion, dragging Scotland down with them.
- Part of it was down to the foreordained cycle of his humors, which had dumped him into the slough once again.
- My hope is that we will realize that there was a context to our friend's fall and humbly wonder what might happen to us if we ever found ourselves in a sustained slough of disillusionment, despair and spiritual darkness.
- Today, even in the slough of a prolonged depression, it's still the second biggest economy in the world, with a GDP as large as Britain's, France's and Germany's combined.
- The late 1980s saw me drift into a slough of depression that again led me back to music, this time the most bleak, unconsoling variety you could imagine.
- While in recent years his work may have fallen into something of a slough of mediocrity, these works are drawn from the period when he was at his strongest, the two decades between 1961 and the early 1980s.
- In this, they are merely extending the New Labour ethos on cleaning up the slough that is modern Britain.
- Gilman's heroine, Dana, is a 38-year-old New York artist in a slough of depression which intensifies when her latest exhibition bombs.
- That is making it nearly impossible to craft monetary policy that is both hawkish on inflation, and doesn't throw huge economies deeper into the slough of economic despond.
- For Scotland's future credibility, teachers need to start promoting politics as a high calling in need of rescuing from the slough of self-serving mediocrity in which it is presently mired.
- He knows that the return of Ilsa can only send Rick into a slough of self-pity, and so Sam contrives to break the fall.
- But, in the meantime, he was dragging Greenock up from a slough of despondency and defiantly offering no apologies for snapping up the best available talent.
Origin Old English slōh, slō(g), of unknown origin. verbsləfsləf [with object]usually slough something off1Shed or remove (a layer of dead skin) a snake sloughs off its old skin exfoliate once a week to slough off any dry skin Example sentencesExamples - It may take that long for the skin to slough residual mite debris and for the allergic reaction to subside.
- I walked back up the hill to the motel, relieved to have sloughed the prickliness of the pub.
- Eventually the tissue is sloughed at the tentacle tips.
- Outside, the pavement was littered with peeling strips of grayish-white gunk that had sloughed from its sides like dead skin.
- In addition, the gangrenous areas on his toes had sloughed and been replaced almost entirely by healthy tissue.
- ‘We often neglect the skin on our bodies,’ says Evans, who makes sure to give herself an in-shower sloughing with a body scrub (which can get rid of dead skin cells and make skin smooth) every other day.
- Since independence, the yoke of French influence has not entirely been sloughed.
- In severe cases of trench foot, tissue injury is serious enough to cause skin sloughing and subsequent gangrenous change.
- Then it turned into a carnivore, sloughed its armour and acquired a new set of biological and chemical defences.
- Janet also emphasized more self-care activities and routines of renewal, like warm baths at night and the use of an essential oil salt scrub which sloughs dead cells while filling the room with heavenly plant energy.
- But, as the play moves back in time, she beautifully sheds guilt and stress like a snake sloughing its skin.
- The question of when to adhere to standards and when to slough them off in favor of something better is a perennial one in the free software world.
- So what we're doing is collecting sloughed skin.
- Pushing back your cuticles allows the nail to grow with fewer ridges and less scraggly splitting; dead skin is easily sloughed away by the towel.
- This is in addition to host-derived proteins, such its pancreatic and intestinal enzymes, mucins, glycoproteins, and sloughed epithelial cells.
- Having sloughed the oppressive confines of the mine, instinct takes over.
- Certainly, the ability of landowners to slough taxes onto others turns them from watchdogs of the treasury into raiders, since so much of public spending creates new unearned increments to land value.
- The lotion gently sloughs away dead skin cells and leaves your skin feeling as smooth as silk.
- Martin looked at the barman, a balding, pale skinned man whose doughy flesh looked to be sloughing from him like a well boiled dumpling.
- Because you are wearing sandals you attend to your feet - slough the dead skin off, cream them, paint their toenails - they therefore look great
- 1.1 Get rid of (something undesirable or no longer required)
he is concerned to slough off the country's bad environmental image Example sentencesExamples - The twenty-dollar gift may allow him to slough off the backwardness of the Old World.
- Once acclimated and having sloughed off her Old World vestiges, she seemed to have turned into an "American."
- Almost the whole of Europe has sloughed off its addiction to the notion of royalty.
- But the country has yet to slough off its planned economy completely.
- None of this will persuade committed gay leftists to slough off their own political agenda, nor should it.
- Only in death could Kennedy's ` star image ' completely slough off the documented unevenness of his national popularity.
- In a heartbeat, all responsibility sloughs away.
- The Indian side appeared famished for most part of the tournament, an outfit that seemed to have sloughed off its competitive edge.
- Last week, Seagate announced plans to slough off close to 3,000 workers, hoping to improve its bottom line.
- Germany and Japan have, in some measure, sloughed off their post-1945 pacifism.
- Family shrines are denuded as children of princes, chiefs, priests, village headmen, and elders slough off ancient beliefs and sell or burn a heritage they abhor.
- Anyone who has ever worked in my shop will verify that I tend to slough off the nasty chores on someone else whenever I can.
- Romania supposedly arose in 1989 to slough off communist dictatorship.
- It cannot begin its own work until it has sloughed off all its superstitious regard for the past.
- Major League Baseball has proposed sloughing off a couple of underperforming teams.
- But until they slough off that inhibition they will fight the opposition with one hand tied behind their back.
- The Berlin Wall has fallen, people are more self-interested, the level of interest in politics has waned, sovereignty has been sloughed off, family structures have crumbled.
- His photographs express his contradictions, his uneasiness about the way he is, they are a way of sloughing off some of that guilt.
- It was an attitude that sloughed off responsibility for quality control onto regulatory authorities.
- For I had always held that revenge was a motive alien to modem, civilized man, a primitive drive, a blood-lust that human nature had sloughed off.
Synonyms dispose of, discard, throw away, throw out, get rid of, toss out - 1.2slough offno object (of dead skin) drop off; be shed.
Example sentencesExamples - It's what we reach for to gently slough away dry skin.
- As the outer layer of skin sloughs off, stem cells in the dermis rush to repair and replace those buffed away.
- Then a whirring noise started up and a brush ran over my skin, allegedly to encourage the sloughing off of dead cells and to stimulate my circulation.
- The fine art of exfoliation; what ingredients should I look for when sloughing off dulling, dead skin cells?
- Three steps: slough away dead skin, moisturize, and protect.
- Friction from rubbing salt over the body improves circulation, sloughs off dead cells, and softens the skin.
- This body polish will help boost the skin's circulation and will slough off dead skin cells, leaving a healthy glow.
- It appears that the bands of fibres can remain intact and functional right up to, or near to, the point at which they are sloughed away with the remaining periderm.
- During your bath or shower, let your feet enjoy warm water for a few minutes, then cleanse with a gentle, non-irritating cleanser and a foot brush or washcloth, working between the toes and scrubbing the heels to slough off dead skin.
- This is achieved using an intense pulsed light laser that sloughs off dead skin cells and encourages a new layer of cells to come to the surface.
- Coffee grounds can be used to slough away dead skin cells and stimulate circulation.
- Exfoliating regularly also helps slough off potential milia-causing dead skin cells.
- Skin may be sloughed off following treatment, but scarring is uncommon.
- Nonchemical exfoliators such as alpha-hydroxy acids and beta-hydroxy acids loosen dead skin cells so they slough off more efficiently.
- Body scrubs help slough away dry, dead skin to reveal the baby-soft texture that makes your mate want to reach out and touch.
- A loofah aids your detox by stimulating circulation and sloughing off dead cells and other waste that collects on your skin.
- ‘The circular motion helps slough away that white membrane, which is dead cuticle skin,’ Kay says.
- Skin-nourishing bath ingredients include oatmeal, which softens and exfoliates skin, milk and oil, which contain fat and lock in moisture, and salt, which sloughs off dead skin.
- This facial exfoliator uses smooth rice granules mixed into a creamy paste to gently slough off dead, dull skin.
- Finally the skin sloughs away and the muscles fray out resulting in what resembles a hairy mane.
- It really tightens the skin, sloughs off dead cells, and leaves you with a firm, bright complexion.
Synonyms dispose of, throw away, throw out, get rid of, toss out - 1.3slough away/downno object (of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression.
Example sentencesExamples - There, seepage could erode and slough away prized fossil-bearing formations.
nounsləfsləf The dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh. the drugs can cause blistering and slough Example sentencesExamples - A variation of the usual procedure may be to undermine the skin flap less, which will help decrease the chance of slough or skin deterioration.
- Although no scientific studies are available to support these claims, clinicians report that thin layers of slough or fibrin buildup on the wound bed can be covered with a selective enzymatic debriding agent prior to sponge application.
- When performing face lifts, plastic surgeons may opt to undermine the skip flap less to decrease the risk of slough, which results in a less than optimal lift.
- Typically wounds do not epithelialize until the black/yellow slough has come off the surface and healthy granulation tissue is apparent.
- When using a nonselcctive enzyme, limit its application to the necrotic or slough tissue and avoid applying it to viable tissue, such as the surrounding wound area.
- Papain/urea debriding ointment is indicated for the debridement of necrotic tissue and liquefaction of slough in acute and chronic lesions.
- The wound bed contains a significant amount of slough, with signs and symptoms of infection, including increased redness and exudate, and pain.
- The wound bed was 80% red nongranulation tissue and 20% yellow slough; it was dry with a minimal amount of tan drainage.
- Two types of necrotic tissue may appear in a wound: slough and eschar.
- The wound base is 85% slough and 15% granulation tissue.
- Venous ulcers are typically shallow, irregularly shaped, and contain fibrous slough.
- Furthermore, epidermal slough - or separation of epidermis from the dermal layer-has been observed following the placement of frozen allograft on the wound bed.
- Transparent film dressings maintain a moist environment, promoting granulation tissue formation and autolytic debridement of slough and eschar.
- Eight percent of wounds in the standard care group had black eschar, 42% were covered in yellow slough, and 50% had a red base.
- Hypertonic saline dressings are not appropriate for minimally draining wounds or wounds covered with dehydrated slough or eschar; these dressings depend on wound moisture to moisten them.
- The most common complication of the surgery is skin-flap slough, leading to a recurrence of the problem.
- Descriptors such as granulation tissue, slough, or eschar are generally used to define tissue type.
- One challenge is differentiating yellow slough from tendons.
- If the wound bed is partially obscured by slough or eschar, the ability to stage before debridement depends on the type of tissue visualized.
- Necrotic tissue, in the form of yellow slough, filled 10% to 20% of all 3 wound beds.
Origin Middle English (as a noun denoting a skin, especially the outer skin shed by a snake): perhaps related to Low German slu(we) ‘husk, peel’. The verb dates from the early 18th century. |