Crossword-Solution: SLOUGH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Slough | a. | Slow. |
| Slough | n. | A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. |
| Slough | n. | A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river. |
| Slough | - | imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. |
| Slough | n. | The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal. |
| Slough | n. | The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification. |
| Slough | v. i. | 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. |
| Slough | v. t. | To cast off; to discard as refuse. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SLOUGH | anagram | GHOULS, LOUGHS |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SLOUGH (5)
There was a slough or a creek leading out of it on the other side that went miles away, I don’t know where, but it didn’t go to the river.
Tarzan slough the thin skin of his artificial civilization, and sink happy and contented into the deep sleep of the wild beast that has fed to repletion.
The maidenly bosom bared to this, the pretty almost-child’s head thus distracted, the delicate foot mincing in this slough of blood and dirt, were types of the disjointed time.
But about the wicked there is another strain; they bury them in a slough in Hades, and make them carry water in a sieve; also while they are yet living they bring them to infamy, and inflict upon them the punishments which Glaucon described as the portion of the just who are reputed to be unjust; nothing else does their invention supply.
She could slough off a sadness and replace it by a hope as easily as a lizard renews a diseased limb.
Quotes with SLOUGH (3)
He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem's face. A dozen awful things he could say, or do, went through his mind. One did not slough off a persona so quickly, he had found. He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first, as a man might absently turn his carriage toward the home he had lived in for all his life, despite…
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
You won't enjoy it," sighed Crowley. "It's been in the car for more than a fortnight." A heavy bass beat began to thump through the Bentley as they sped past Heathrow. Aziraphale's brow furrowed. "I don't recognize this," he said. "What is it?" "It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust'," said Crowley, closing his eyes as they went through Slough. To while away the time as they crossed the sleeping Chilterns, they also listened to William Byrd's "We Are the Champions" a…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1965–2016).