sloughing
Meaning of sloughing
- shed or remove (a layer of dead skin).
a snake sloughs off its old skin
exfoliate once a week to slough off any dry skin
- (of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression.
an eternal rain of silt sloughs down from the edges of the continents
Middle English (as a noun denoting a skin, especially the outer skin shed by a snake): perhaps related to Low German slu(we ) ‘husk, peel’. The verb dates from the early 18th century.
Information about sloughing
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Hyphenation of sloughing
slough-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- sloughing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
sloughing synonyms
Meaning shedding:
Meaning get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable:
Meaning park (a vehicle) in a depot:
Meaning throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship:
Meaning discard or remove from service (a redundant, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal:
Meaning refuse to accept; reject:
Meaning cease to support or look after (someone); desert:
Meaning voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up:
Meaning let or make (something) fall vertically:
Meaning dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable, or faulty:
Meaning deposit or dispose of (rubbish, waste, or unwanted material), typically in a careless or hurried way:
Meaning provide with a ditch or ditches:
Meaning end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly:
Meaning throw (something) away by putting it in a bin:
Meaning discard or abandon unceremoniously:
Meaning damage or destroy:
Meaning abandon or leave:
sloughing antonyms
Meaning have or retain possession of:
Meaning buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself:
Words that rhyme with sloughing
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