SLOUGH (OFF) Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

slough (off)

verb

variants also sluff (off)

Definition of slough (off)

as in to lose

to get rid of as useless or unwanted finally sloughed off the depression that had been weighing him down for months

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Verb

Success loses some of its shine when your private world is absorbing all the strain.

— Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2026
Apple had introduced the iPhone just two months earlier, and Brown concluded that his company had no future in smartphones, which were losing hundreds of millions of dollars a quarter.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of lose

Verb

The county urged the Supreme Court to reject the administration's appeal, while the state of Texas submitted its own brief defending the database.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
Notably, one person, without explanation, rejected the invitation to testify, though their statement to law enforcement was also considered.

— Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of reject

Verb

Rains could dump more than 2 feet across islands still recovering from a string of storms.

— MEGAN JANETSKY, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
Earlier Tuesday afternoon, the weather service said thunderstorms were already dumping heavy rain across the region, with more rain on the horizon.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of dump

Verb

Then toss a fresh pair of leggings into your cart to wear with popular oversized sweaters, and cute capris for the in-between-temp days.

— Jessie Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2026
Prison officials said surveillance footage showed Morales and Garcia handed the weapons used to kill Lopez to another inmate, Estevan Saucedo, who tossed them in a garbage can.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of toss

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Grant starts that particular groundswell early, after failing to sing an impressively low note and being eliminated in Round 1.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
To eliminate this obstacle, the ANU research team designed a fluorescent assay named PETra.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of eliminate

Verb

And then – just like that – a world that’s a stone’s throw away is gone.

— Drew Paul, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
The app’s office sits a stone’s throw away from the Liangzhu ruins, on the second floor of a gray building that used to be an elementary school in the village.

— Afra Wang, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of throw away

Verb

Restaurateurs, especially small or family-run businesses, are ditching graphic designers and food photographers in favor of much cheaper AI agents.

— Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Costco ditches its Kirkland beer Pope Leo XIV, who grew up listening to popular American television preacher Archbishop Fulton Sheen, praised his fellow Illinois clergyman as an inspiration today on the eve of Sheen’s beatification.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of ditch

Verb

A number of items were voluntarily discarded due to contamination, including cling film, ovenable pan liners and baking cups.

— Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Keep what users genuinely value, discard what solves an imaginary problem and rebuild only what deserves another experiment.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of discard

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