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   slough

   /sləf/

   verb

   • 1. shed or remove (a layer of dead skin): "a snake sloughs off its old skin"
   • ▪ get rid of (something undesirable or no longer required): "he is concerned to slough off the country's bad environmental image"
   • ▪ (of dead skin) drop off; be shed.
   • ▪ (of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression.

   noun

   • 1. the dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh: "the drugs can cause blistering and slough"

   Word Origin Middle English (as a noun denoting a skin, especially the outer skin shed by a snake): perhaps related to Low German slu(we) ‘husk, peel’. The verb dates from the early 18th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sloughy adjective

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