To come to a dead-end.
A road with no exit.
A position that offers no hope of progress.
Going nowhere; blocked.
To discard.
To shed (skin).
To slide off (like a layer of skin).
To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
A muddy or marshy area.
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.
A state of depression.
The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.