| 单词 | sloughing |
| 释义 | sloughing (once / 33964 pages) n WORD FAMILY sloughing: sloughings+/slough: sloughed, sloughing, sloughs, sloughy USAGE EXAMPLESLacking the roots to hold his layers of skin together, AJ is at risk of his skin sloughing off from a hard bump. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Deep chasms are cut into the peninsula, evidence that parts of it are sloughing off and crumbling into boulders, some already piled below. Seattle Times(Oct 09, 2016) If redwoods are so ruthless about sloughing off unproductive branches, it seems unlikely that they would tolerate a parasite year after year. Washington Post(Oct 07, 2016) n the process whereby something is shed Syn|Hypo|Hyper shedding abscission shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant ecdysis, molt, molting, moult, moultingperiodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles biological process, organic process a process occurring in living organisms |
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