| 单词 | slough |
| 释义 | slough slough1 /slow/ for 1, 2, 4; /slooh/ for 3, n. 1. an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region. 2. a hole full of mire, as in a road. 3. Also, slew, slue. Northern U.S. and Canadian. a marshy or reedy pool, pond, inlet, backwater, or the like. 4. a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness. [bef. 900; ME; OE sloh; c. MLG sloch, MHG sluoche ditch] slough2 —sloughiness, n. —sloughy, adj. /sluf/, n. 1. the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically. 2. Pathol. a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue. 3. anything that is shed or cast off. 4. Cards. a discard. v.i. 5. to be or become shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake. 6. to cast off a slough. 7. Pathol. to separate from the sound flesh, as a slough. 8. Cards. to discard a card or cards. v.t. 9. to dispose or get rid of; cast (often fol. by off): to slough off a bad habit. 10. to shed as or like a slough. 11. Cards. to discard (cards). 12. slough over, to treat as slight or trivial: to slough over a friend's mistake. Also, sluff. [1250-1300; ME slughe, slouh skin of a snake; c. G Schlauch skin, bag] Syn. 6. molt. |
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