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slough off

slough off verb: to discard something useless or unwanted.

Verb

slough off (third-person singular simple present sloughs off, present participle sloughing off, simple past and past participle sloughed off)

  1. (transitive) To discard something useless or unwanted.

Forms of slough off

third-person singular presentsloughs off
present participlesloughing off
past participlesloughed off
pastsloughed off

Questions about slough off

What does slough off mean?
Slough off means to discard something useless or unwanted.
What part of speech is slough off?
Slough off is a verb.
What is the past tense of slough off?
The past tense of slough off is sloughed off.

Words near slough off in the dictionary

  1. slough
  2. slough grass
  3. slough grasses
  4. slough hay
  5. slough of despond
  6. slough off
  7. slough shark
  8. slough sharks
  9. slough thistle
  10. sloughable
  11. sloughage

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