slough (n.)
- abandon
- bilge
- bilgewater
- bind
- bog
- bottom
- bottomland
- bottoms
- caries
- carrion
- case
- cashier
- cast
- chuck
- chuckhole
- clutch
- complication
- crunch
- decay
- decomposition
- desquamation
- discard
- dishwater
- ditch
- dump
- embarrassment
- exuviae
- fen
- fenland
- foulness
- gangrene
- garbage
- glade
- hobble
- holm
- how-do-you-do
- husk
- imbroglio
- jam
- jilt
- junk
- loblolly
- marsh
- marshland
- meadow
- mere
- mess
- mire
- mix
- molt
- moor
- moorland
- morass
- mortification
- moss
- mud
- necrosis
- noma
- offal
- pass
- pickle
- pinch
- plight
- pod
- predicament
- puddle
- putrefaction
- putrescence
- putridity
- putridness
- quagmire
- quicksand
- rancidity
- rancidness
- rankness
- refuse
- reject
- remove
- riffraff
- rot
- rottenness
- scrap
- scrape
- scum
- scurf
- sewage
- sewerage
- shed
- shell
- shuck
- skin
- slip
- slop
- slops
- sphacelus
- spoilage
- spot
- squeeze
- stew
- strait
- straits
- sump
- swale
- swamp
- swampland
- swill
- tightrope
- wallow
- wash
slough (v.)
- abandon
- bilge
- bind
- bog
- bottom
- case
- cashier
- cast
- chuck
- clutch
- crunch
- decay
- deep-six
- discard
- ditch
- dump
- eliminate
- exuviate
- fen
- gangrene
- hobble
- husk
- jam
- jettison
- jilt
- junk
- mess
- mire
- mix
- molt
- moor
- mud
- pass
- pickle
- pinch
- plight
- pod
- puddle
- refuse
- reject
- remove
- rot
- scrap
- scrape
- scum
- shed
- shell
- shuck
- skin
- slip
- slop
- sough
- spot
- squeeze
- stew
- swamp
- swill
- wallow
- wash
The name of the slough was Despond.
