Sloughing

verb

Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.verbTo shed (skin).

"Snakes slough their skin periodically."

2.verbTo slide off (like a layer of skin).

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

3.verbTo discard.

"East sloughed a heart."

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

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

5.nounSomething sloughed off.

6.nounThe act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.

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