to slough off
1
7.5
- phrasal verb
- /slʌf ɔf/
:
deshacerse de
- You know, you guys have probably already at this point sloughed off a few of your high school friends.
- slough off skin
- slough off cells
So all of their water from their sprinkler system runs down all of our water because ours kind of sloughs off.
- So all of their water from their sprinkler system runs down all of our water because ours kind of sloughs off.
- And when I'm not exercising consistently, like I, I don't feel is good and what I don't feel is good, then it's easier to Slough off on healthy habits.
Examples
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And every single day they would remove the Blue Zoo suit and they would vacuum it for all the hair and and skin cells that sloughed off during the day.
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The dermatologist recommended a scrub to slough off the dry, flaky skin on my elbows.
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Yeah, everything you eat sloughs off some of that.
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In fact, it was the sloughed-off skin of a man.
Fiction book (1992) -
It was a sloughed-off skin.
Fiction book (1992) -
Dino came over, sloughing off a heavy topcoat.
Fiction book (2002) -
I slough it off.
Blog text (34) -
This will slough off dead skin, revealing a radiant complexion.
Blog text (20) -
Casimir sloughed it off.
Fiction book (1992) -
Whatsoever, everything had sloughed off him like dead skin; even the presence of Asher had stopped bothering him—he was light, free, and released.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
∞
1.6
To remove or throw away something you do not want
477
1.8
To get rid of something you do not want, for example by putting it in the bin
202
1.8
To put something in the trash because you do not want it
149
3.4
Get rid of something by throwing it away, selling it, or giving it to someone
136
3.2
To remove something unwanted from a place
131
3.5
To get rid of something you do not need
130
2.7
To throw something away because you no longer want or need it
39
2.7
To throw away things you do not want
37
3.8
To remove unwanted people or things from a group
34
1.0
To throw away something you no longer want
30
3.7
To throw away something that is no longer useful
27
4.0
Remove an outside layer or covering from something to show what is under it
13
3.0
To throw away things that are no longer useful
7
8.6
Get rid of someone or something you no longer want
5
2.0
To throw something away because you no longer want or need it
4
4.1
To throw away things you no longer want
3
4.8
To get rid of something you do not want or need
1
3.7
To throw away things you do not want
1
6.0
To reject or get rid of something no longer needed
To get rid of unwanted things
Antonyms
How Removed
477
1.8
∞
1.6
1
7.5
22
3.9
24
2.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
slough + off
The meaning is a literal composition of the parts: if a learner knows 'slough' in the sense 'to shed or cast off' and 'off' meaning removal, they can derive that something separates and falls away. Although 'slough' is low-frequency and orthographically/pronunciation-wise irregular (so many learners may not know that verb), the phrase itself is fully compositional when the constituent senses are known.
Etymology
Slough off comes from the image of animals, like snakes, shedding old skin: they slough the old layer off to show fresh skin underneath. So when people say slough off habits or feelings, they mean 'to get rid of' old, unwanted parts of life.