slough

/slʌf/

Misollar

The town Slough has a very suitable name.

ot noun

The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
Dead skin on a sore or ulcer. This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
(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. We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
A state of depression. John is in a slough.

fe’l verb

To shed (skin). Snakes slough their skin periodically.
To slide off (like a layer of skin). A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
To discard. East sloughed a heart.
(Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. (compare ditch) "Dude, Kaydn and Jarom are totally sloughing today!"

Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.