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    Definition of sloughed in English Dictionary

  • VerbBFsloughSGsloughsPRsloughing
    1. simple past tense and past participle of slough.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • 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.
        • A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
        • That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
      2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
        • We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Verbs
        • Verb forms
          • Participles
            • Past participles
            • Verb simple past forms

        Other Vocabulary

        Look-Alike Words
        1. en ploughed
        2. en slough
        3. en Slough
        4. en troughed
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of sloughed for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "sloughed" is a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
        Definiteness: Level 1
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