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Definitions

slough

[sluhf] / slʌf /
NOUN
swamp
Synonyms
STRONG
bog bottoms fen glade marsh marshland mire moor morass mud polder quag quagmire swale swampland wetland
WEAK
everglade holm muskeg peat bog
VERB
shed
Synonyms
STRONG
afford beam cashier cast diffuse disburden discard doff drop emit exude exuviate give jettison junk molt radiate reject scatter scrap shower spill sprinkle throw yield
WEAK
give forth let fall pour forth send forth take off throw away throw off throw out
Antonyms
STRONG
catch collect conceal gather hide keep receive refrain take withhold

Example Sentences

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The MS Aurora, a 70-year-old cruise ship that inspired TV’s ‘The Love Boat,’ sits abandoned in a slough outside Stockton.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

While disease is a natural part of marine ecosystems, increased runoff, global climate change and a slough of human impacts stress corals and cause disease.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

Kelly has run the slough exhibition three times since 2014.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

Varon describes her famously mercurial subject as “gloomy” and “in a funk,” struggling to “fight his way out of his slough of despond,” harboring “a fatalistic despair.”

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023

Staying with me for just a second, she jumped in the slough and swam back to the other side.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.