sloughed
past simple and past participle ofslough
slough
verb[T]
uk/slʌf/us/slʌf/biology
(of someanimals) to have alayerofskincome off:
Snakes sloughtheirskinregularly.
Synonyms
moultUK
shed
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandonment
- banish
- be scattered to the four windsidiom
- bin
- castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
- dumping
- erase
- erasure
- evacuate
- evacuation
- exorcism
- expunge
- shrug
- shrugsomethingoff
- shuck
- shucksomethingoff
- shufflesomethingoff
- sling
- toss
- turf
Phrasal verb
sloughsomethingoff
Examplesofsloughed
sloughed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Or vacuuming up little bits ofsloughed-off skin.
From theCambridge English Corpus
That meant, of course, that these early cells would later besloughedoff.
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Thesesloughedidentities remained, nonetheless, in one's physiological "memory," as habitual motor actions and as a presiding muscular sense, neither traumatic nor repressed.
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The diarrhoeal stool consists of an inflammatory exudate,sloughedcells and cell debris, copious mucus from goblet cells, pus and blood.
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Microvilli disappear from the growing surface of the fertilisation body, and eventually it is eithersloughedoff or reincorporated into the egg.
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Some of the nutrients removed by the pumpkin during crop association would also be released into the soil by decomposition of thesloughed-off leaf residue for the yam to utilize.
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To some extent, the responsibility will besloughedoff.
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It is unacceptable that that body of opinion should have beensloughedoff.
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Nor can they besloughedoff on to the state or the rest of civil society.
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He is certainly not treating the matter in a cavalier way; he is not saying that such duties can besloughedoff by anyone.
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If left embedded the mouthparts cause a foreign body reaction and are usually eventuallysloughedlike a splinter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Found in a patient's sputum, they are ciliated columnar cellssloughedfrom the bronchial mucosa of a patient with asthma.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This creates the classically described red currant jelly stool, which is a mixture ofsloughedmucosa, blood, and mucus.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The avenues were guarded by broken-nosed angels yearning heavenward; one showed a leprous patch where her left eye and cheek hadsloughedaway.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The animal often then eats the resultingsloughedskin.
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- wall of silence
- wall of silence
- wallop
- walloped
- walloping
- wall outlet
- wall outlet
- wallow
- wallowed
- wallow-in
- wallowing
- wallow in something
- wallow in sth
- wallow-in-sth
- wall painting
- wall-painting
- wallpaper
- wallpapered
- wallpapering
- wall sconce
- walls have ears
- walls-have-ears
- wall socket
- wall something in
- wall something off