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slough 1

 (slo͞o, slou) also slew (slo͞o)
n.
1. A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.
2. also slue A swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.
3. A state of deep despair or moral degradation.
[Middle English, from Old English slōh.]
slough′y adj.

slough 2

 (slŭf)
n.
1. The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or amphibian.
2. Medicine A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation.
3. An outer layer or covering that is shed or removed.
v. sloughed, slough·ing, sloughs
v.intr.
1. To be cast off or shed; come off: "smooth fallen branches from which all bark has sloughed" (David M. Carroll).
2. To shed a slough: every time that a snake sloughs.
3. Medicine To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.
v.tr.
1. To cast off or shed (skin or a covering): came inside and sloughed off his coat.
2. To discard or disregard as undesirable or unfavorable: sloughed off her misgivings.
Phrasal Verb:
slough off
Slang To work less intensely than is required or expected.
[Middle English slughe; akin to Middle High German slūch, sluoch , sloughed off snake skin (Modern German Schlauch, hose, tire tube).]

Slough

 (slou)
A borough of southeast England, a residential and industrial suburb of London.
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slough off

(slʌf)
vb
(tr, adverb) to cast off (cares, etc)
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.slough off - discard as undesirable; "the candidate sloughed off his former campaign workers"
get rid of, remove - dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
2.slough off - separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
practice of medicine, 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; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
amputate, cut off - remove surgically; "amputate limbs"
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slough off

verb shed, discard, throw off, cast off, divest yourself of She tried to slough off her old habits.
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Translations

w>slough off

vt sep skin, cells → abstreifen; habits, cares → abwerfen, abschütteln; (hum) husband → den Laufpass geben (+dat)
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slough off

[ˌslʌfˈɒf] vt + adv
a. (subj, snake) to slough off its skin → mutare pelle
b. (liter) (abandon, habit) → abbandonare
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