slough
Cross references:
1. discard
1. slough \'slu:, chiefly Brit or by Americans vaguely familiar with this
sense\ \'slau. also 'slu:\ n [ME slogh, fr. OE slo-h; akin to MHG slouche
ditch]'slau. 1a: a place of deep mud or mire 1b1: SWAMP 1b2: an inlet
from a river; also : BACKWATER 1b3: a creek in a marsh or tide flat 2: a
state of moral degradation or spiritual dejection
2. slough vt : to engulf in a slough to plod through mud : SLOG
3. slough or sluff \'sl*f\ n [ME slughe; akin to MHG slu-ch snake skin,
Lith shachek]>liauzhachek>ti to crawl 1: the cast-off skin of a snake 2: a
mass of dead tissue separating from an ulcer 3: something that may be shed
or cast off
4. slough or sluff \'sl*f\ vi 1a: to become shed or cast off 1b: to cast
off one's skin 1c: to separate in the form of dead tissue from living
tissue 2: to crumble slowly and fall away 1: to cast off 2: to get rid
of or discard as irksome, objectionable, or disadvantageous; esp : to get
rid of (a losing card) in bridge