sloughing

Pluralsloughings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of slough. Use it after "is" or "are", or as a noun.

   The snake in the glass tank is sloughing its skin.

   A week after the sunburn, my shoulders started sloughing.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   When an animal such as a snake gets rid of its old skin or shell.

   The snake hides under a rock during its sloughing.

   After each sloughing, the lizard's colors look brighter.

   Similarmolt, shedding

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3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A piece or layer that has come off something, like old skin.

   A thin sloughing of old skin lay in the corner of the snake's tank.

   We swept up the bark sloughings under the old tree.

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