sloughverb [ T ]
uk/slʌf/us/slʌf/biology (of some animals) to have a layer of skin come off:
Snakes slough their skin regularly.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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Phrasal verb(s)
slough sth off
sloughnoun
uk/slaʊ/us/sluː//slaʊ/slough noun (SADNESS)
[ S ] literary a mental state of deep sadness and no hope:
She seems unable to pull herself out of this deep slough of self-pity.
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Sadness and regret
- a heavy heart idiom
- be/weigh on your conscience idiom
- bitter
- bring a lump to/have a lump in your throat idiom
- broken-hearted
- gloom
- gloomy
- guilt
- guilt complex
- guilt trip
- guilt-ridden
- guilt trip
- lament
- melancholy
- mourn
- rue
- rue the day idiom
- rueful
- sackcloth
- sad
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slough noun (WET AREA)
[ C ] an area of soft, wet land
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Geography: wetland
- bog
- boggy
- fen
- floodplain
- marsh
- marshland
- marshy
- mire
- morass
- peat bog
- quagmire
- quicksand
- swamp
- swamp gas
- swampland
- swampy
- water meadow
- waterlogged
- wetland