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slough

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  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