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slough

noun
variants: also slew or slue

Synonyms and Antonyms of slough

spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
  • The land for miles around the lake is strewn with ponds, sloughs, and mudflats.
Synonyms of slough

bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, muskeg, swamp, swampland, wash, wetland
Words Related to slough

swale

quagmire
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slough

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of slough

to move heavily or clumsily
  • the unpleasant task of sloughing through the muck to retrieve the ball
Synonyms of slough

barge, clump, flounder, galumph, lumber, lump, plod, pound, scuff, scuffle, shamble, shuffle, slog, stamp, stomp, stumble, stump, tramp, tromp, trudge
Words Related to slough

drag, flop, haul

blunder, careen, dodder, lurch, reel, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, waddle, weave, wobble (also wabble)
Near Antonyms of slough

drift, float, hang, hover, poise, waft
Antonyms of slough

breeze, coast, glide, slide, waltz, whisk

Synonym Discussion of slough

discard, cast, shed, slough, scrap, junk mean to get rid of. discard implies the letting go or throwing away of something that has become useless or superfluous though often not intrinsically valueless.
    • discard old clothes
cast, especially when used with off, away, or out, implies a forceful rejection or repudiation.
    • cast off her friends
shed and slough imply a throwing off of something both useless and encumbering and often suggest a consequent renewal of vitality or luster.
    • shed a bad habit
    • finally sloughed off the depression
scrap and junk imply throwing away or breaking up as worthless in existent form.
    • scrap all the old ways
    • would junk our educational system
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slough

verb
variants: also sluff

Synonyms and Antonyms of slough

to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside
  • The snake is sloughing its old skin.
Synonyms of slough

exfoliate, molt, shed, slip
Words Related to slough

flake, peel, scale

chuck, discard, ditch, fling (off or away), jettison, junk, scrap, shuck (off), throw away, throw out, unload

Synonym Discussion of slough

discard, cast, shed, slough, scrap, junk mean to get rid of. discard implies the letting go or throwing away of something that has become useless or superfluous though often not intrinsically valueless.
    • discard old clothes
cast, especially when used with off, away, or out, implies a forceful rejection or repudiation.
    • cast off her friends
shed and slough imply a throwing off of something both useless and encumbering and often suggest a consequent renewal of vitality or luster.
    • shed a bad habit
    • finally sloughed off the depression
scrap and junk imply throwing away or breaking up as worthless in existent form.
    • scrap all the old ways
    • would junk our educational system

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