Slough is valid Scrabble Word

Is slough a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is slough valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for SLOUGH in dictionary:

VERB:

to cast off
shed or remove (a layer of dead skin)
get rid of (something undesirable or no longer required)
(of dead skin) drop off; be shed
(of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression
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.
To cast off; to discard as refuse.
cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
(of a snake) shed (its skin)

NOUN:

a town in SE England to the west of London; population 119,400 (est. 2009).

A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
a hollow filled with mud
a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
bog

ADJECTIVE:

Slow.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

Words related to SLOUGH

bog6 sloughed13 sloughier13 sloughiest14 sloughing14 sloughs11 sloughy14 sluff11

Words that contain SLOUGH

sloughi11 sloughs11 sloughy14 sloughed13 sloughis12 sloughier13 sloughing14 sloughiest14

How to use SLOUGH in a sentence

In fear, as well as with a nobler desire to rise out of the slough of the old folly of life, the leaders of the nation abandoned then-feuds.
It is sometimes found that even with careful attention the wound left by the removal of the slough shows a marked disinclination to heal.
They deposited them in the sand on the shores of the slough, covering them up, leaving them for the sun to hatch.
We one day went to Beaconsfield to view a house, and had a fly from Slough, a drive of several miles.
Since Mozart, music has just kept her nose above the slough of realism, romance, and melodrama.
He demanded the full details of the Slough transaction and suggested that the Vote should be withdrawn until they were forthcoming.
The passing soldiers were greatly amused and pulled me to shore, and then, stepping into the slough with a grand indifference, soon got the car up again.
CHAPTER VI CERTAIN PERPLEXITIES From the direction of the slough two shots sounded, presently followed by two more.
The two voices called laughingly back and forth across the slough, mingled with the excited barking of the brown dog as he retrieved the slaughtered ducks.
When we had investigated the chances at the well, we climbed aboard again and rattlety-banged across country to the Slough.

The region of the Slough was, however, a different matter.
There were unexpected ridges of principle in the general slough of his makeup and perhaps the Indian girl was resting on one of them.
We may confidently assert, relative to the little house and garden of Slough, that it is the spot of all the world where the greatest number of discoveries have been made.
The first of January 1840, Sir John Herschel, his wife, their children, seven in number, and some old family servants, assembled at Slough.
She is at the mercy of the first man of her acquaintance who sees her in that Parisian slough.
I determined to throw all my strength into the work of raising the mother institution from her slough of debt.
Nothing would please me more than to come up this slough with just such a flag.
The second period begins when the effects of shock pass, and continues until the slough separates, this usually taking from seven to fourteen days.
They swamp themselves in a slough of self-sacrifice.
From a hill-top they saw the Exposition buildings rising from what once had been a slough.
The thought of one day living on Slough Farm and being his own master there, was infinitely pleasant to him.
At times Elsie and his life on Slough Farm became so bitter to him that he would have liked to be a hundred miles away.
But still he tried to struggle to that side of the Slough that was further from his own house, and next to the Wicket-gate.
He has never disclosed the fact that he inherited Slough.

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