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1. Necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
   - gangrene, sphacelus
    
2. A hollow filled with mud
    
3. A stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
    
4. Any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)

1. Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
   "our dog sloughs every Spring"
   - shed, molt [N. Amer], exuviate, moult [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: sloughing, sloughed, sloughs

See also: sloughing, sloughy

Type of: bog, cast, cast off, cover, covering, drop, lose, natural covering, pathology, peat bog, shake off, shed, swamp, swampland, throw, throw away, throw off

Encyclopedia: Slough Slough, England