Defenition of the word slough

• Defenition of the word slough

  • cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; of animals
  • any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
  • a hollow filled with mud
  • a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
  • necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
  • cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "out dog sheds every Spring"
  • cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

Synonyms for the word slough

• • exuviate
  • molt
  • moult
  • shed

Hyponyms for the word slough

• • clostridial myonecrosis
  • cold gangrene
  • desquamate
  • dry gangrene
  • emphysematous gangrene
  • emphysematous phlegmon
  • gangrenous emphysema
  • gas gangrene
  • gas phlegmon
  • mumification necrosis
  • mummification
  • peel off
  • progressive emphysematous necrosis

Hypernyms for the word slough

• • bog
  • cast
  • cast off
  • cover
  • covering
  • drop
  • natural covering
  • pathology
  • peat bog
  • shake off
  • shed
  • swamp
  • swampland
  • throw
  • throw away
  • throw off

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