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- slough off something. to ignore something or behave as if it was unimportant Politicians sloughed off public anger over the hospital cutbacks until several newspapers ran articles about it. He wrecked the car and then tried to slough it off like it was nothing.
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- Define slough: a place of deep mud or mire; swamp; an inlet on a river; also : backwater — slough in a sentence a place of deep mud or mire; swamp; an inlet on a river; also : backwater… See the full definition
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slough 1. a mass of dead tissue in, or cast out from, living tissue. 2. to shed or cast off. anesthetic slough. the iatrogenic slough caused by the injection of a necrotizing anesthetic solution subcutaneously in mistake for an intravenous injection. The common sites are over the anterior aspect of the forearm in small animals and over the jugular furrow in large animals.
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Definitions &Translations Slough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England. The town is about 20 miles west of Charing Cross, London. It is bisected by the A4 and the Great Western Main Line. At the 2001 census, the population of Slough was 119,070 and the borough area was the most ethnically diverse local authority area outside London in the United Kingdom. Slough has the highest proportion of religious adherents in England.
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Desquamation For the meaning in material sciences, see spalling. Desquamation (from Latin desquamare, meaning 'to scrape the scales off a fish'), also called skin peeling, is the shedding of the outermost membrane or layer of a tissue, such as the skin. 1 Skin.
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- eroding. 1  transitive verb. 2  1 : to diminish or destroy by degrees:a : to eat into or away by slow destruction of substance (as by acid, infection, or cancer)b : to wear away by the action of water, wind, or glacial ice flooding eroded the hillsidec : to cause to deteriorate or disappear as if by eating or wearing away inflation eroding buying power.
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- & vb. n. Sloughing.] (Med.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly. Sloughing \Sloughing\, n. (Zool.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
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layoff Definition of layoff. 1  1 : a period of inactivity or idleness. 2  2 : the act of laying off an employee or a workforce; also : shutdown.
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Slough Slough, town and unitary authority, geographic county of Berkshire, southeastern England. Most of the unitary authority lies within the historic county of Buckinghamshire, but it also includes Poyle, part of the historic county of Middlesex.
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- Noun[edit] 1  Deposits of dirt or bacteria on the body, discharges; bacterial deposits on the teeth or tongue.  Fresh sheets, sponging, a spoonful of animal soup, sordes removed from his cracked lips, black in the candlelight.
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slough 1 slough. n. A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, a sore, or an inflammation. v. To separate from surrounding living tissue.
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slough 1. a mass of dead tissue in, or cast out from, living tissue. 2. to shed or cast off. anesthetic slough. the iatrogenic slough caused by the injection of a necrotizing anesthetic solution subcutaneously in mistake for an intravenous injection.The common sites are over the anterior aspect of the forearm in small animals and over the jugular furrow in large animals.. a mass of dead tissue in, or cast out from, living tissue. 2. to shed or cast off. anesthetic slough. the iatrogenic slough caused by the injection of a necrotizing anesthetic solution subcutaneously in mistake for an intravenous injection.
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- Related words. 1  slough off. 2  1. literary to get rid of something that you do not want Synonyms and related words. To get rid of something or someone:replace, throw away, shed... 3  2. biology same as slough Snakes slough off their dead skins.
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CHISEL (chiselled, chiselling) rip off - deprive somebody of something by deceit; The con-man beat me out of $50; This salesman ripped us off!; we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme; They chiseled me out of my money. cheat, chisel. gazump - raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price.
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washout wash·out. n. 1. a. Erosion of a relatively soft surface, such as a roadbed, by a sudden gush of water, as from a downpour or floods.ash·out. n. 1. a. Erosion of a relatively soft surface, such as a roadbed, by a sudden gush of water, as from a downpour or floods.
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- Definition of slew. 1  transitive verb. 2  1 : to turn (as a telescope or a ship's spar) about a fixed point that is usually the axis. 3  2 : to cause to skid : veer slew a car around a turn.  intransitive 1  verb. 1 : to turn, twist, or swing about : pivot.  2 : skid.
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- transitive verb. 1a : to cut off the hair fromb : to cut or clip (as hair or wool) from someone or something; also : to cut something from shear a lawnc chiefly Scotland : to reap with a sickled : to cut or trim with shears or a similar instrument. 2 : to cut with something sharp.
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- flesh wound image by Allyson Ricketts from Fotolia.com. In the context of wounds, slough is dead skin tissue that may have a yellow or white appearance. It is important to remove this tissue to prevent infection and promote healing.lesh wound image by Allyson Ricketts from Fotolia.com. In the context of wounds, slough is dead skin tissue that may have a yellow or white appearance. It is important to remove this tissue to prevent infection and promote healing.
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slough 1 slough1. 1  an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region. 2  a hole full of mire, as in a road. 3  Also, slew, slue. Northern U.S. and Canadian. a marshy or reedy pool, pond, inlet, backwater, or the like. 4  a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness.
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Definitions &Translations gangrene, sphacelus, slough(noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass. slough(noun) a hollow filled with mud. slough(noun) a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) slough(verb) any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
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slough 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.
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pay 1 pay off, 1  to pay (someone) everything that is due that person, especially to do so and discharge from one's employ. 2  to pay (a debt) in full. 3  Informal. to bribe.  to retaliate upon or 1  punish. Nautical. to fall off to leeward.  to result in success or failure: The risk paid off handsomely.
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slough slough. n. A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, a sore, or an inflammation. v. To separate from surrounding living tissue.. a mass of dead tissue in, or cast out from, living tissue. 2. to shed or cast off. anesthetic slough. the iatrogenic slough caused by the injection of a necrotizing anesthetic solution subcutaneously in mistake for an intravenous injection.
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slough Definition of slough. 1a : a place of deep mud or mireb or less commonly slew or slue play \ˈslü\ (1) : swamp (2) : an inlet on a river; also : backwater (3) : a creek in a marsh or tide flat.
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offal from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 1  n. The rejected or waste parts of any process, especially the inedible parts of a butchered animal, such as the viscera. 2  n. A dead body; carrion. 3  n. That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
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SLOUGHING Hypernyms (sloughing is a kind of...): biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of sloughing): abscission (shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant) ecdysis; molt; molting; moult; moulting (periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles)