Synonym: exuviate, gangrene, molt, moult, shed, sphacelus. Similar words: plough, ploughed, slouch, slouching, bough, dough, rough, ought. Meaning: [slaʊ] 
n. 1. necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass 2. a hollow filled with mud 3. a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) 4. any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake). v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers.
n. 1. necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass 2. a hollow filled with mud 3. a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) 4. any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake). v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers. 
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61. Full thickness tissue loss with exposed bone, tendon or muscle. Slough or eschar may be present on some parts of the wound bed. Often include undermining and tunneling.
62. Normal glass will slough off silicon that may stimulate high levels of production.
63. At that time the country was in the slough of despond.
64. At lunchtime we streaked through Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh reserve near Monterey, where egrets preened and massive sea lions lolled in the mud.
65. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough , and at what period soever of life, is always a child.
66. We must do something to save him from the slough of Despond.
67. He made the body of the man with the lily magnolia and his head and limbs with the cicada slough. Then he stuck them together with bletilla.