slough
verb[T]
uk/slʌf/us/slʌf/biology
(of someanimals) to have alayerofskincome off:
(某些动物)蜕(皮)Snakes sloughtheirskinregularly.蛇定期蜕皮。
Synonyms
moultUK
shed
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandonment
- banish
- be scattered to the four windsidiom
- bin
- castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
- dumping
- eradication
- erase
- erasure
- evacuate
- evacuation
- exorcism
- fling
- scrape
- shedding
- shoo
- shrug
- shrugsomethingoff
- shuck
- sling
Phrasal verb
sloughsomethingoff
slough
noun
uk/slaʊ/us/sluː//slaʊ/sloughnoun(SADNESS)
[S]literary
amentalstateofdeepsadnessand nohope:
悲伤绝望Sheseemsunabletopullherself out of thisdeepsloughofself-pity.她似乎深陷于这种自怜自艾的悲伤状态,无法自拔。
Sadness and regret
- aw
- be/weigh onyourconscienceidiom
- bitter
- black dog
- breastbeating
- cry
- distress
- feel badidiom
- gloominess
- glumness
- groan
- guilt
- melancholia
- regretful
- regretfully
- remorse
- remorseful
- remorsefully
- repent
- repentant
sloughnoun(WET AREA)
[C]
anareaofsoft,wetland
泥沼,泥淖;沼泽Geography: wetland
- bog
- boggy
- boreal forest
- fen
- floodplain
- marshland
- marshy
- mire
- miry
- morass
- peat bog
- quagmire
- quicksand
- reed bed
- swamp
- swamp gas
- swampy
- water meadow
- waterlogged
- wetland