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variants:
also sluff (off)
Synonyms & Antonyms of slough (off)
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- finally sloughed off the depression that had been weighing him down for months
Synonyms for slough (off)
- cashier,
- cast (off),
- chuck,
- deep-six,
- discard,
- ditch,
- dump,
- eighty-six
- (or 86),
- exorcise
- (also exorcize),
- fling (off or away),
- jettison,
- junk,
- lay by,
- lose,
- pitch,
- reject,
- scrap,
- shed,
- shuck (off),
- throw away,
- throw out,
- toss,
- unload
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“Slough (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slough%20%28off%29. Accessed 4 Aug. 2021.
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