sloughing

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English

Definitions

verb

To shed (skin).“Snakes slough their skin periodically.”
To slide off (like a layer of skin).“A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.”
To discard.“East sloughed a heart.”
(Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. (compare ditch)“"Dude, Kaydn and Jarom are totally sloughing today!"”

noun

Something sloughed off.
The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.

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Synonyms

shedding moult exfoliation loose offloading left-off blowoff flowoff offtake unsheathing effoliation seep throw-off deplumation burnoff abscission

Associated

epithelium intestinal pulmonary skin tissue layer cells surface dead off loss

Rhymes

puffing huffing muffing rebuffing scuffing snuffing bluffing fluffing whiffing stuffing

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