sloughsomethingoff
phrasal verbwithsloughverb[T]uk/slʌf/us/slʌf/
literary
to getridof something or someoneunwanted:
Heseemedtowanttosloughoff all hisoldacquaintances.
biology
Whensnakesand otherreptilessloughofftheirskin, they getridof anold,deadlayerofskin.
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandonment
- banish
- be scattered to the four windsidiom
- bin
- castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
- dumping
- eradication
- erase
- erasure
- evacuate
- evacuation
- exorcism
- fling
- scrape
- shedding
- shoo
- shrug
- shrugsomethingoff
- shuck
- sling
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