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SLOUGH OFF
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Dictionary entry overview: What does slough off mean?
• SLOUGH OFF (verb)
The verb SLOUGH OFF has 2 senses:
1. discard as undesirable
2. separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
Familiarity information: SLOUGH OFF used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Discard as undesirable
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
the candidate sloughed off his former campaign workers
Hypernyms (to "slough off" is one way to...):
get rid of; remove (dispose of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "slough off" is one way to...):
amputate; cut off (remove surgically)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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