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sloughs (off)verbalso sluffs (off)present tense third-person singular of slough (off) to get rid of as useless or unwantedfinally sloughed off the depression that had been weighing him down for months cashiers, casts (off), chucks, deep-sixes, discards, ditches, dumps, eighty-sixes(or 86es), exorcises(also exorcizes), flings (off or away), jettisons, junks, lays by, loses, pitches, rejects, scraps, sheds, shucks (off), throws away, throws out, tosses, unloads abandons, abdicates, deserts, forsakesdismisses, kicks outabolishes, annihilates, eliminates, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extinguishes, extirpates, liquidates, removes, roots (out), stamps (out), wipes out disposes of, sets aside adopts, embraces, takes onemploys, uses, utilizesholds, holds back, keeps, retains |