Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of casting or shedding the skin, shell, hair, feathers, and the like; a molt; ecdysis.
- noun The act or process of separation of dead from living tissue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
slough . - noun Something
sloughed off. - noun zoology The act of casting off the skin or shell;
ecdysis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process whereby something is shed
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Examples
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American romantic literature finished its "sloughing" and achieved a uniqueness that distinguished it from the writings of Europe.
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In years past, this kind of sloughing off of the various predilections that make someone an adult didn't have the far-reaching effect that it does today; before the age of viral transmission, YouTubed kingmaking and iRule, prepubescents didn't really have the ability to inflict their will on the rest of us.
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If lameness is due to acute inflammation bad results such as sloughing and loss of the hoof may follow; and if large exostoses mechanically interfere with function of the joint, or where articular erosions exist, no possible good can come from neurectomy.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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To avoid such possible inversion, early party leaders began "sloughing" votes off the party's vice presidential choice.
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European consciousness completely "(58): this process of" sloughing "and the concern over the literary development of a nationalist text has been a long-standing subject of critical literary discussions.
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America’s obsession with "sloughing" by examining nationalism in John Louis O’Sullivan’s
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There has been speculation that the breakup of the urban public school systems is irresistible because it offers municipalities a way to reduce their payrolls while sloughing off the responsibility for running the schools.
Marc Epstein: Will Rick Perry Unravel the Strange Consensus on Public Education? Marc Epstein 2011
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Their manner was more serious and they pressed their questions more insistently, not because Stilwell was less practiced than Regan at sloughing them off, although he was, but because the reporters were certain that Stilwell and his candidate had to be disappointed the debate had not changed the direction of the race.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Grey v-neck, no sleeves, grey shirt, dark shorts with the hems fraying a fringe over his skinny white legs, knee-socks sloughing down towards his ankles, and a blinking unfocussed look on his friendly freckled face.
Acceptance Gill Hoffs 2011
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There has been speculation that the breakup of the urban public school systems is irresistible because it offers municipalities a way to reduce their payrolls while sloughing off the responsibility for running the schools.
Marc Epstein: Will Rick Perry Unravel the Strange Consensus on Public Education? Marc Epstein 2011
maraschick17 commented on the word sloughing
This word is a very common one around my line of work in the oil-feild as we use it, it refers to a condition of a underground formation callled shale, when not drilled correctly it breaks away from the side of the hole sloughs to bottom and causes many problems
October 4, 2010