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Meanings of slough off in English

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Usage of slough off in English
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Nothing to do but let the flesh slough off and then amputate.
Antwerp to Gallipoli: A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behin...
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I slough off my backpack, then take off my sunglasses and cap.
Kafka on the Shore
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With her endowments of metabolism, the plaster seemed to slough off slowly.
Wizardborn
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On the surface, old cells slough off and are replaced by new ones.
The beauty diet: looking great has never been so delicious
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The perfect weekly scrub to slough off all of those dead skin cells.
NY Magazine
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Grant looked up again in time to see another large chunk of earth slough off.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
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I'll just slough off some of my regular work.
Dayworld
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So it's a quick slough off at tea time.'
The Guardian
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She wiped one hand across her face, as if she could slough off her weariness.
Phantoms
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You might slough off, snakelike, old prejudices, old habits, and old mental and emotional reflexes.
Dayworld
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But many of her shots were so maladroit that Obama found them easy to slough off.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
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Olivia made an effort to slough off some of the tension the girl tended to absorb.
Hemlock Grove
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In the geological substructure of Snowtop Mountain, the shape-changer continued to slough off diseased portions of itself.
Phantoms
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Now with this waffle-maker, I can finally slough off the manacles of the old waffle consumption paradigm.
NY Magazine
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You're trying to slough off this acid job, too, but you can't quite make yourself do it entirely.
Talk of the town
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Other lines began to slough off from the column, swinging east and west, and the crackling became continuous.
The King in Yellow
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