slough's Usage Examples:

Exfoliating Crystals: Step one of the brand's exclusive exfoliating system, this blend of crystalline citric acid and vitamin E gently and effectively sloughs off dead skin.

'This foaming, oil-free cleanser fights blemishes with salicylic acid and also sloughs off dead skin cells.

Such bodies often become nothing but vast sheets of liquid mud, and are called " mud lakes," a term most frequently applied to the sloughs fed by Quinn's river.

The result is dulness of sight, a stagnation of the vital circulations, and a general deliquium and sloughing off of all the intellectual faculties.

Unfortunately, however, within ten days, soft yellow slough was once again accumulating in the previously granulating wound.

Enough loose fibers are sloughed off through regular wear that pilling will naturally diminish over time.

If the egg isn't fertilized, the lining sloughs off and leaves the body as a menstrual period.

sloughing open wounds, which are infected with MRSA.

Or fall into a slough of despondency from which I ca n't reach the keyboard.

Oh, for the flimsy pensioners and truculent barrow boys of yesteryear - whither the legions of faint hearted English whimsy?slough of religious ignorance and whimsy.

If the dead part be protected from the ingress of putrefactive organisms, however, it separates from that which is living without the ordinary evidences of gangrene, and is then known as an " aseptic slough.

The over-haste of the Puritans to drill England into ways of morality and virtue had thrown at least the upper classes into a slough of revelry and baseness.

Among the lakes, sloughs and stubble-fields of the prairies, teal, ducks, coots and geese are found in abundance.

Synonyms:

bog, peat bog,

Antonyms:

recuperate, better, divest,