The Meaning of slough

• (a.) Slow.
• (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
• (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
• () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
• (n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
• (n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
• (v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
• (v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.

Synonyms

Mire , difficulty , despond.

Antonyms

Footing , standpoint.

Homophones

sluff

Rhymes

acuff , bluff , bruff , buff , chuff , cluff , cuff , cuffe , duff , dyestuff , earmuff , enough , fisticuff , fluff , foodstuff , gruff , guff , handcuff , hough , huff , leboeuf , lebouef , luff , macduff , mcduff , mcgeough , mcgough , muff , overstuff , pluff , puff , rebuff , rough , ruf , ruff , schuff , scottsbluff , scruff , scuff , shuff , sluff , snuff , stough , stuff , tough , tuff