SLOUGHED

Definition: SLOUGHED

SLOUGHED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Slough

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SLOUGHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)

Crosswords: SLOUGHED

Specialty definitions using "SLOUGHED": Pfiesteria piscicida. (references)

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Photo Album: SLOUGHED

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	At least one rickettsia is visible within a sloughed endothelial cell. There is marked capillary endothelial cell hypertrophy. Transmission electron micrograph. Credit: CDC.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: SLOUGHED

"SLOUGHED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "SLOUGHED" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	50%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (past participle)	36.36%	8	124,375
Adjective (general or positive)	13.64%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	22	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: SLOUGHED

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "SLOUGHED": sloughed-off.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SLOUGHED

Language		Translations for "SLOUGHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		脱落 (slough, sloughing). (various references)

Dutch		garen met opgestroopte gebroken garenstukjes (sloughed yarn). (various references)

French		fil éboulé (sloughed yarn). (various references)

German		löste sich ab. (various references)

Greek		Nήμα άχρηστο (sloughed yarn). (various references)

Italian		filo staccato (sloughed yarn), filo scivolato (sloughed yarn). (various references)

Korean		벗�". (various references)

Pig Latin		oughedslay

Portuguese		fio solto da bobina (sloughed yarn), fio desabado (sloughed yarn). (various references)

Russian		сходить (alight, come off, come off smth., descend, descended, get down, sloughs, step down). (various references)

Spanish		hilo desmoronado (sloughed yarn). (various references)

Swedish		nedfallet garn (sloughed yarn). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SLOUGHED

Misspellings
	"SLOUGHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cloughies, Loughbeg, Slaughden. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SLOUGHED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-l-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: soughed.
	-2 letters: dholes, doughs, ghouls, gushed, housed, housel, lodges, loughs, loused, lushed, should, slough, sludge, souled, sughed.
	-3 letters: dhole, doges, doles, dough, douse, duels, dulse, gelds, ghoul, gleds, glued, glues, golds, gudes, gules, helos, holds, holed, holes, hosed, hosel, house, leuds, lodes, lodge, loges, lough, louse, ludes, luged, luges, ogled, ogles, ousel, sheol.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-h-l-o-s-u"
	+3 letters: shouldering.
	+4 letters: overslaughed.
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