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| 6. | | brittienglanti |
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- (British) A muddy or marshy area.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Eastern United States) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- (Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- A state of depression.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all are formed by glacial potholes.
Verbit
- (transitive) To shed (skin).
- (intransitive) To slide off (like a layer of skin).
- (transitive, card games) To discard.
Esimerkit
- That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
- This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
- This skin is being sloughed.
- A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
- The mud sloughed off her palms easily [...]
- East sloughed a heart.
- 1883 "That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. — Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
- The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
- John is in a slough.
- Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.
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