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sloughnounalso slew or slue spongy land saturated or partially covered with waterthe land for miles around the lake is strewn with ponds, sloughs, and mudflats bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, muskeg, swamp, swampland, wash, wetland swalequagmireguck(or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush to move heavily or clumsilythe unpleasant task of sloughing through the muck to retrieve the ball barge, clump, flog(British), flounder, galumph, lumber, lump, plod, pound, scuff, scuffle, shamble, shuffle, slog, stamp, stomp, stumble, stump, tramp, tromp, trudge drag, flop, haulblunder, careen, dodder, lurch, reel, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, waddle, weave, wobble(also wabble) breeze, coast, glide, slide, waltz, whisk drift, float, hang, hover, poise, waft to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) asidethe snake is sloughing its old skin exfoliate, molt, shed, slip flake, peel, scalechuck, discard, ditch, fling (off or away), jettison, junk, scrap, shuck (off), throw away, throw out, unload v.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 before the 12th century |