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n.

The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or amphibian.
Medicine A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation.
An outer layer or covering that is shed.

v. sloughed, slough·ing, sloughs

v. intr.

To be cast off or shed; come off: The snake's skin sloughs off.
To shed a slough.
Medicine To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.

v. tr.
To discard as undesirable or unfavorable; get rid of: slough off former associates.

[Middle English slughe.]

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slough Audio Help   (slŭf) Pronunciation Key
Noun   The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or an amphibian.

Verb   To shed an outer layer of skin.

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