slough
- noun
A swamp. (The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.)
A situation characterized by lack of progress or activity. (the economic slough of the interwar years) - noun
The dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh. (the drugs can cause blistering and slough)
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