I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
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Pieces of the bowel or stomach wall may slough off in diarrhea.
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After sloughing off Payless, May could turn its attention to acquisitions, possibly of other department stores, analysts said.
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The edges are frayed, with the ends sloughing off .
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It is this cheapness which I am endeavouring to slough off .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After sloughing off Payless, May could turn its attention to acquisitions, possibly of other department stores, analysts said.
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It is this cheapness which I am endeavouring to slough off.
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Pieces of the bowel or stomach wall may slough off in diarrhea.
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The edges are frayed, with the ends sloughing off.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was seen as an anarchic slough of disorder and despair.
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Many commentators now believed that Kasparov was finished, that psychologically he could not recover from such a slough of despond.
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Now the steps end in a kind of stagnant slough .