Slough synonyms

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marsh
The definition of a marsh is a swampy area of lowlands.
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sphacelus
(Medicine) gangrenous part
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woking (related)
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bracknell (related)
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stevenage (related)
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maidenhead (related)
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basingstoke (related)
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croydon (related)
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stockport (related)
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redhill (related)
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basildon (related)
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guildford (related)
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eastleigh (related)
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quagmire
Wet, boggy ground, yielding under the foot
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bog
An expanse of marshland.
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swamp (related)
An area of low-lying wet or seasonally flooded land, often having trees and dense shrubs or thickets.
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exuviate
To cast off (a skin, shell, etc.); molt
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molt
(Intransitive) To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc. and replace it by a fresh layer.
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shed
To diffuse or radiate; send forth or impart:
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fen
An area of low, flat, marshy land; swamp; bog
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marshland
An area or region characterized by marshes or swamps
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mire
Mire is defined as wet and soggy ground.
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morass
An area of low-lying, soggy ground.
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muskeg
A peat bog formed by an accumulation of sphagnum moss, leaves, and decayed matter, often with scattered small trees, and found especially in northern North America.
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wetland
A lowland area, such as a marsh or swamp, that is saturated with moisture:
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throw off
(Idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
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dry (related)
(Informal) A prohibitionist
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put-on (related)
To cast off by a natural process
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gangrene
Decay of tissue in a part of the body when the blood supply is obstructed by injury, disease, etc.
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moult
(Intransitive) To shed or lose a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
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swampland
(Uncountable, physics) The set of all possible string theories.
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Slough Sentence Examples

  • Many of them fell into the slough of pauperism, and were saved from starvation by public doles.

  • The earliest practical trial of electrical telegraphy was made in 1837 on the London and North Western Railway, and the first public line under the patent of Wheatstone and Cooke was laid from Paddington to Slough on the Great Western Railway in 1843.

  • It could not be otherwise if England was to emerge from the slough in which Mary had left it.

  • This tract, the remnant of an ancient forest, the more beautiful because of the undulating character of the land, lies west of the road between Slough and Beaconsfield, and 2 m.

  • a being who has not yet shed the slough of an animal shape, but combines the powers - natural and preternatural - of some animal with those of a man.

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