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[slaʊ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a swamp
- a situation characterized by lack of progress or activity
(e.g: the economic slough of the interwar years)
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Origin
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Old English slōh, slō(g), of unknown origin
[slʌf], (Verb)
Definitions:
- shed or remove (a layer of dead skin)
(e.g: a snake sloughs off its old skin)
- (of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression
(e.g: an eternal rain of silt sloughs down from the edges of the continents)
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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
[slʌf], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh
(e.g: the drugs can cause blistering and slough)
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Origin
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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
[slaʊ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a town in south-eastern England to the west of London; population 119,400 (est. 2009)
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