sloughed

We have found lemma(root) word of sloughed : slough.

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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:
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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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


[slʌf], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh
(e.g: the drugs can cause blistering and slough)


Phrases:

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


[slaʊ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a town in south-eastern England to the west of London; population 119,400 (est. 2009)


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