Usually means: Shedding or casting off layer.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Slough, slough: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Slough, slough, slough: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Slough, slough, slough: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slough: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slough: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slough, slough: Wordnik
  7. slough: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Slough, slough: Wiktionary
  9. slough: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slough: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slough: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slough: Dictionary.com
  13. slough (n.), slough (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slough: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slough (UK Parliament constituency), Slough (disambiguation), Slough (hydrology), Slough (poem), Slough (town), Slough (wetland), Slough: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slough: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slough: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slough: Rhymezone
  19. Slough: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slough: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. slough: Free Dictionary
  22. slough: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Slough, slough: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Slough: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slough: Health & Beauty Glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slough (disambiguation), Slough (district), Slough (town), slough: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Slough: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Slough (district), Slough (town), slough: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. slough: Idioms
  2. slough, slough, slough: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. slough, slough, slough: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Slough: A Seattle Lexicon

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Slough: Beauty & Health Glossary
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
noun:  Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
verb:  (transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.
verb:  (intransitive) To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.
verb:  (transitive, card games) To discard.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
noun:  (British) A muddy or marshy area.
noun:  (Eastern United States) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
noun:  (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
noun:  A state of depression.
noun:  (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
noun:  A town in east Berkshire, England (formerly Buckinghamshire), close to Heathrow Airport.
noun:  A borough and unitary authority (Slough Borough Council) in Berkshire.

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