noun
- plural of slough: swampy or marshy areas
- plural of slough: states of deep despair or moral degradation
Usage: figurative
verb
- third person singular present of slough: sheds or casts off
Examples
- The wetlands contain several sloughs that provide habitat for waterfowl.
- After the rain, the sloughs filled with muddy water.
- He struggled to escape the sloughs of despair after losing his job.
- The novel describes the moral sloughs of urban poverty.
- A snake sloughs its skin as it grows.
- She sloughs off criticism without letting it affect her.
- The tree sloughs its bark naturally each year.