slough sth off
— phrasal verb with slough uk/slʌf/us/slʌf/verb [ T ]
literary to get rid of something or someone unwanted:
He seemed to want to slough off all his old acquaintances.
biology When snakes and other reptiles slough off their skin, they get rid of an old, dead layer of skin.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw sth away/out
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- weed
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