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sloughing (off)verbalso sluffing (off)present participle of slough (off) to get rid of as useless or unwantedfinally sloughed off the depression that had been weighing him down for months cashiering, casting (off), chucking, deep-sixing, discarding, ditching, dumping, eighty-sixing(or 86ing), exorcising(also exorcizing), flinging (off or away), jettisoning, junking, laying by, losing, pitching, rejecting, scrapping, shedding, shucking (off), throwing away, throwing out, tossing, unloading abandoning, abdicating, deserting, forsakingdismissing, kicking outabolishing, annihilating, eliminating, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extinguishing, extirpating, liquidating, removing, rooting (out), stamping (out), wiping out disposing of, setting aside adopting, embracing, taking onemploying, using, utilizingholding, holding back, keeping, retaining |