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slough 音標拼音: [sl'ʌf] n. 泥沼,沼澤,蛻的皮,腐肉
vt. 使陷入泥沼,使沉淪,脫落 泥沼,沼澤,蛻的皮,腐肉使陷入泥沼,使沈淪,脫落 slough n 1: necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass [ synonym: { gangrene}, { sphacelus}, { slough}] 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) v 1: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; " our dog sheds every Spring" [ synonym: { shed}, { molt}, { exuviate}, { moult}, { slough}] Slough \ Slough\, n. [ OE. slugh, slouh; cf. MHG. sl? ch the skin of a serpent, G. schlauch a skin, a leather bag or bottle.] 1. The skin, commonly the cast- off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Med.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification. [ 1913 Webster]
Slough \ Slough\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Sloughed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Sloughing}.] ( Med.) 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Slough \ Slough\, a. Slow. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
Slough \ Slough\, n. [ OE. slogh, slough, AS. sl[= o] h a hollow place; cf. MHG. sl[= u] ch an abyss, gullet, G. schlucken to swallow; also Gael. & Ir. sloc a pit, pool. ditch, Ir. slug to swallow. Gr. ????? to hiccough, to sob.] 1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] He' s here stuck in a slough. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. [ Pronounced sl[= oo].] A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river. Note: [ In this sense local or provincial; also spelt { sloo}, and { slue}.] [ 1913 Webster] { Slough grass} ( Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus { Muhlenbergia}; -- called also { drop seed}, and { nimble Will}. [ 1913 Webster]
Slough \ Slough\, v. t. To cast off; to discard as refuse. [ 1913 Webster] New tint the plumage of the birds, And slough decay from grazing herds. -- Emerson. [ 1913 Webster]
Slough \ Slough\, obs. imp. of { Slee}, to slay. Slew. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 166 Moby Thesaurus words for " slough": abandon, baygall, bilge, bilgewater, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, caries, carrion, case, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, chuckhole, clutch, complication, crunch, decay, decomposition, deep- six, desquamation, discard, dishwater, dispose of, ditch, ditchwater, dry gangrene, dry rot, dump, eighty- six, eliminate, embarrassing position, embarrassment, everglade, exuviae, exuviate, fen, fenland, fine how- do- you- do, foulness, gangrene, garbage, gas gangrene, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, glade, hell to pay, hobble, hog wallow, holm, hot water, how- do- you- do, husk, imbroglio, jam, jettison, jilt, junk, loblolly, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mess, mire, mix, moist gangrene, molt, moor, moorland, morass, mortification, moss, muckhole, mud, mud flat, mud puddle, mudhole, necrosis, necrotic tissue, noma, offal, offscourings, parlous straits, part with, pass, peat bog, pickle, pinch, plight, pod, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, puddle, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, quagmire, quicksand, rancidity, rancidness, rankness, refuse, reject, remove, riffraff, rot, rottenness, salt marsh, scrap, scrape, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, shed, shell, shuck, skin, slip, slob land, slop, slops, sough, sphacelation, sphacelus, spoilage, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, swill, taiga, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tooth decay, toss overboard, tricky spot, unholy mess, wallow, wash
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