slough

  • 91slough — 2) a tidal channel in a salt marsh. Pronounced to rhyme with slew 3) a marine bay. Pronounced to rhyme with slew 4) a piece of dead tissue separated from a wound or inflamed surface. Pronounced to rhyme with tough 5) the process of separating… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 92Slough — noun /slaʊ/ A town in west London, close to Heathrow Airport …

    Wiktionary

  • 93Slough — ► C. de Gran Bretaña, en el S de Inglaterra, condado de Berkshire; 106 822 h …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 94slough — Synonyms and related words: abandon, baygall, bilge, bilgewater, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, caries, carrion, case, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, chuckhole, clutch, complication, crunch, decay …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 95slough — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. quagmire, bog, marsh; see swamp . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) I n. swamp, bog, marsh, backwater, muddy hollow, mire. see swamp II v. shed, molt, discard, throw off, cast off, get rid of. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 96slough —  Pronounced to rhyme with cow, it means a swamp or bog; pronounced to rhyme with rough, it means to shed skin …

    Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • 97slough —     a) A small marsh, especially a marshy area lying in a local, shallow, closed depression on a piece of dry land, as on the prairie of the Midwestern USA.     b) A term used, especially in the Mississippi Valley, for a creek or sluggish body of …

    Glossary of landform and geologic terms

  • 98slough — slew, slue …

    American English homophones

  • 99slough — sb. == bog. Alys. 6075; [slo]. O. and N. 1392. AS. slog …

    Oldest English Words

  • 100slough — slaÊŠ n. swamp, bog; hole or depression filled with mud; despair, dejected state v. shed dead skin or tissue; abandon, throw off, get rid of; come off …

    English contemporary dictionary