slough
/slʌf/ verb C2- To shed skin or outer layers. · This skin is being sloughed.· Snakes slough their skin periodically.
- To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do. · A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
- To discard. · East sloughed a heart.
- To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
He/she/it sloughs · Past sloughed · Past participle sloughed · -ing form sloughing
Verb forms
- Base form
- slough
- He/she/it
- sloughs
- Past
- sloughed
- Past participle
- sloughed
- -ing form
- sloughing
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