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noun

variants also slews or slues

plural of slough

as in marshes

spongy land saturated or partially covered with water the land for miles around the lake is strewn with ponds, sloughs, and mudflats

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sloughs

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verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of slough

as in shuffles

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

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sloughs

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verb (2)

variants also sluffs

present tense third-person singular of slough

as in sheds

to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside the snake is sloughing its old skin

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Noun

They're mostly found in the swamps, sloughs, wetlands, and drainage ditches of the western coastal plain, and are occasionally found around rivers and lakes. —

Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 June 2026 Any niche status went out the window years ago, as slews of more casual runners opt into the marathon experience. —

Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2026 Hyperia then automatically slews to the target and performs an operation called astrometry – measuring the precise positions of stars to double-check its accuracy. —

New Atlas, 26 Jan. 2026 Everglades views The Everglades’ beauty lies in scale and stillness, with mirrorlike sloughs and cypress domes rising from shallow water. —

Jesse Scott, AFAR Media, 23 Jan. 2026 Explore a white-sand beach and the sinks, swales, and sloughs found within the 2,500-acre Suwannee River Water Management District. —

Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2026 They are found in a wide variety of habitats but prefer oak-cabbage palm hammocks, freshwater marshes and sloughs, pine flatwoods, and more open agricultural areas. —

Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025 If something happens to the water, land or the sloughs that hold the wild rice beds, the tribe has nowhere else to go, Tsosie explained. —

Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025 Find a general area where ducks seem to be frequenting and then mark the public sloughs and potholes that can’t be seen from the road. —

Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2025

Verb

Dissolving pumice beads provides a textural grit that immediately sloughs away some of the bigger bumps while AHAs provide invisible decongestion and cell turnover. —

Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 5 June 2026 Their body care kit gets to the root of smooth skin with a trio of products including a pre-sluff bar that rids it of lotions and oils, a washable textured mitt that sloughs off dead cells and a eucalyptus-scented body lotion that loads it with hydration while making your bathroom smell like a spa. —

Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026 Lactic acid is an alpha-hydroxy acid, which gently sloughs away dead skin cells to reveal softer, smoother skin. —

Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026 The stand collar is ideal for keeping the chill out, too, while a water-resistant fabric sloughs off rain and snow with ease. —

Michelle Tchea, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2026 This option by Neogen utilizes a three layer design, part of which is from 100% cotton mesh, that manually sloughs away dead skin cells. —

Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025

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Noun

State biologists also consider prescribed burns, 88,000 of which take place each year, as essential for restoring prairies, forests and marshes with new growth.

— Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026
No-see-ums breed in moist soil, marshes, sand, and in still or slow-moving bodies of water like streams, ponds, puddles, and freshwater areas.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 June 2026