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slough
slough is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective, noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Slow. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Slow.
- 2noun
A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
- 3noun
A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
- 4
imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
- 5noun
The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
- 6noun
The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
- 7intransitive verb
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.
- 8transitive verb
To cast off; to discard as refuse.
- 9noun
any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- 10noun
a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- 11noun
a hollow filled with mud
- 12noun
necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- 13verb
cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
"our dog sheds every Spring"
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