slough
noun
[ slaʊ ]
• a swamp.
• a situation characterized by lack of progress or activity.
• "the economic slough of the interwar years"
Origin:
Old English slōh, slō(g), of unknown origin.
slough
verb
• shed or remove (a layer of dead skin).
• "a snake sloughs off its old skin"
Similar:
dispose of,
discard,
throw away,
throw out,
get rid of,
toss out,
shed,
jettison,
scrap,
cast aside/off,
repudiate,
abandon,
relinquish,
drop,
dispense with,
have done with,
reject,
shrug off,
throw on the scrapheap,
chuck (away/out),
fling away,
dump,
ditch,
axe,
bin,
junk,
get shut of,
get shot of,
trash,
forsake,
• (of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression.
• "an eternal rain of silt sloughs down from the edges of the continents"
slough
noun
• the dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh.
• "the drugs can cause blistering and slough"
Origin:
Middle English (as a noun denoting a skin, especially the outer skin shed by a snake): perhaps related to Low German slu(we ) ‘husk, peel’. The verb dates from the early 18th century.
