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Sloughing

To shed (skin).

📖 Definitions of "Sloughing"

verb
  1. 1

    To shed (skin).

    "Snakes slough their skin periodically."

  2. 2

    To slide off (like a layer of skin).

    "A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off."

  3. 3

    To discard.

    "East sloughed a heart."

  4. 4

    (Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. (compare ditch)

    ""Dude, Kaydn and Jarom are totally sloughing today!""

noun
  1. 1

    Something sloughed off.

  2. 2

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

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