Swamp vs. Slough

Swampnoun

A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.

Swampnoun

A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.

Swampverb

To drench or fill with water.

Swampverb

To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.

Swampverb

(figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Swampnoun

Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

Swampverb

To plunge or sink into a swamp.

Swampverb

To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

Swampverb

Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Swampverb

To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

Swampverb

To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

Swampnoun

low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

Swampnoun

a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables;

Swampverb

drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged;

Swampverb

fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;

Swamp

A swamp is a forested wetland. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in creating this environment.

Sloughnoun

The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

Sloughnoun

Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.

Sloughnoun

(British) A muddy or marshy area.

Sloughnoun

(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.

Sloughnoun

(Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.

Sloughnoun

A state of depression.

Sloughnoun

(Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.

Sloughverb

(transitive) To shed (skin).

Sloughverb

(intransitive) To slide off (like a layer of skin).

Sloughverb

To discard.

Sloughverb

To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.

Sloughadjective

Slow.

Sloughnoun

A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

Sloughnoun

A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Sloughnoun

The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.

Sloughnoun

The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

Slough

imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

Sloughverb

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.

Sloughverb

To cast off; to discard as refuse.

Sloughnoun

necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass

Sloughnoun

a hollow filled with mud

Sloughnoun

a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)

Sloughnoun

any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)

Sloughverb

cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers;

Sloughnoun

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

Sloughverb

shed or remove (a layer of dead skin)

Sloughverb

get rid of (something undesirable or no longer required)

Sloughverb

(of dead skin) drop off; be shed

Sloughverb

(of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression

Slough

Slough () is a large town in Berkshire, England (within the historic county of Buckinghamshire), 20 miles (32 km) west of central London (Charing Cross) and 19 miles (31 km) north-east of Reading. It is in the Thames Valley and within the London metropolitan area at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways.