Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of or resembling a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living tissue.
- Full of sloughs; miry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of sloughs, miry.
- adjective Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.
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- adjective
Marshy ; having the characteristics of awetland .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of soil) soft and watery
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cavity sloughy throughout and cæcum covered with dull grey lymph.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Even my friend, the respected driver of the Old Union Cambridge Coach to London, can remember, in his time, the coach being two days on the road, and occasionally being indebted to farmers for the loan of horses to drag the coach wheels out of their sloughy tracks.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 495, June 25, 1831 Various
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At five in the afternoon they all complained of fatigue, and we looked around us for a landing-place, where we might rest awhile, but we could find none, for every village which we saw after that hour was unfortunately situated behind large thick morasses and sloughy bogs, through which, after various provoking and tedious trials, we found it impossible to penetrate.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832 Various
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The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.
The song of the lark 1915
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The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.
The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Gummatous ulcers are usually situated on the dorsum, are frequently multiple, and have sloughy, undermined edges; the surrounding parts, although indurated, are not so densely hard as in cancer; there is not necessarily any involvement of lymph glands.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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And that element is very much the center to this tale of terrorism and sloughy bureaucracy.
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"We found no evidence to recommend the routine use of larval therapy on sloughy leg ulcers to speed up healing or reduce bacterial load," Dumville and colleagues conclude.
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"We found no evidence to recommend the routine use of larval therapy on sloughy leg ulcers to speed up healing or reduce bacterial load," Dumville and colleagues conclude.
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"We found no evidence to recommend the routine use of larval therapy on sloughy leg ulcers to speed up healing or reduce bacterial load," Dumville and colleagues conclude.
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