1. A hollow filled with mud
   "The wagon wheels got stuck in a deep slough"
    
2. A stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
   "The alligator disappeared into the murky slough"
    
3. Any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
   "We found a snake's slough on the forest floor"
    
4. Necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
   "The doctor removed the slough from the wound";
   - gangrene, sphacelus

1. Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
   "Snakes slough their skin as they grow";
   - shed, molt [N. Amer], exuviate, moult [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: sloughed, sloughing, sloughs

Type of: bog, cast, cast off, cover, covering, drop, lose, natural covering, pathology, peat bog, shed, swamp, swampland, throw off

Encyclopedia: Slough, Buckinghamshire