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sloughsnounalso slews or sluespl. of slough spongy land saturated or partially covered with waterthe land for miles around the lake is strewn with ponds, sloughs, and mudflats bogs, fens, marshes, marshlands, mires, moors, morasses, muskegs, swamplands, swamps, washes, wetlands swalesquagmiresgucks(or gooks), muck, muds, oozes, slimes, slop, sludges, slush sloughsverb1present tense third-person singular of sloughto move heavily or clumsilythe unpleasant task of sloughing through the muck to retrieve the ball barges, clumps, flogs(British), flounders, galumphs, lumbers, lumps, plods, pounds, scuffles, scuffs, shambles, shuffles, slogs, stamps, stomps, stumbles, stumps, tramps, tromps, trudges drags, flops, haulsblunders, careens, dodders, lurches, reels, staggers, sways, teeters, totters, waddles, weaves, wobbles(also wabbles) breezes, coasts, glides, slides, waltzes, whisks drifts, floats, hangs, hovers, poises, wafts sloughsverb2also sluffspresent tense third-person singular of sloughto cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) asidethe snake is sloughing its old skin exfoliates, molts, sheds, slips flakes, peels, scaleschucks, discards, ditches, flings (off or away), jettisons, junks, scraps, shucks (off), throws away, throws out, unloads |