sloughed

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.
   • This skin is being sloughed.
2. (intransitive) 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.
3. (transitive) To discard.
   • East sloughed a heart.
4. (US, Western, intransitive, slang) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.

   Synonyms:

   ditch

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