slough

:  to engulf in a slough

:  to plod through or as if through mud :  slog

1 :  the cast-off skin of a snake

2 :  a mass of dead tissue separating from an ulcer

3 :  something that may be shed or cast off

1a :  to become shed or cast offb :  to cast off one's skinc :  to separate in the form of dead tissue from living tissue

2 :  to crumble slowly and fall away

1 :  to cast off

2a :  to get rid of or discard as irksome, objectionable, or disadvantageous —usually used with offb :  to dispose of (a losing card in bridge) by discarding

town in Berkshire, southeast central England, west of London population 155,000

:  a wet marshy or muddy place

:  dead tissue separating from living tissue; especially :  a mass of dead tissue separating from an ulcer

:  to separate in the form of dead tissue from living tissue dermal sloughing