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Uttal

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
  2. (British) A muddy or marshy area.
  3. Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
  4. (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.
  5. (Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
  6. A state of depression.
  7. (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all are formed by glacial potholes.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To shed (skin).
  2. (intransitive) To slide off (like a layer of skin).
  3. (transitive, card games) To discard.

Exempel

  • That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
  • This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
  • This skin is being sloughed.
  • A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
  • The mud sloughed off her palms easily [...]
  • East sloughed a heart.
  • 1883 "That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. — Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
  • The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
  • John is in a slough.
  • Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipsloughed
Imperfektsloughed
Presensparticipsloughing
Pluralsloughs
Tredje person singular indicativ presenssloughs