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Verb: slough off
  1. Discard as undesirable
    "the candidate sloughed off his former campaign workers"
     
  2. Separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion

Derived forms: sloughed off, sloughs off, sloughing off

Type of: amputate, cut off, get rid of, remove

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