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verb (1)

past tense of slough
as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily the unpleasant task of sloughing through the muck to retrieve the ball

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sloughed

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verb (2)

variants also sluffed
past tense of slough
as in shed
to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside the snake is sloughing its old skin

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Recent Examples of sloughed
Verb
Dirt, body oil, and dead skin cells sloughed off during bathing also contribute to this sticky residue. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 May 2026 The sins of the father are cheerfully sloughed off on the son. — Elizabeth Nelson, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026 The Abandons feels noticeably scant in world-building and character development, as if all of the details and concepts Sutter would normally include in a 13-episode season got sloughed off. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025 About 300 to 400 linear feet (91 to 122 meters) of a coastal slope sloughed off, falling about 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 meters) toward the ocean, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloughed
  1. shuffled
  2. shed
  3. stomped
  4. peeled
  5. stumbled
  6. discarded
Verb
  • Bulldozers shuffled right through the rubble to make roads that cut Gaza into separate sections.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
  • And before several services shuffled their rankings earlier this week, no QB ranked inside the top 20.
    — Grace Raynor, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Definition of shuffled
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  • And that’s a lot of energy to shed as a vehicle comes blaring back into Earth’s thick atmosphere, a process that typically annihilates objects returning from space unless they are precisely designed to survive the trip.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • These factors, coupled with a vast engineering and AI talent pool, could help India shed its reputation as an AI laggard, experts said, but cautioned that these are still early days in that journey.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Definition of shed
Verb
  • Cece got out of bed, put on a pair of fuzzy pink slippers, and stomped to her mother’s office.
    — Jessica Contrera, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • On Monday night, a 39-year-old man wearing a Spurs jersey was stomped and punched after Game 3 while walking down West 47th Street, about 15 blocks from the arena.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
Definition of stomped
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  • Fruits and vegetables that are cut, peeled, or cooked should be refrigerated as soon as possible, within two hours, according to the CDC.
    — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 13 July 2026
  • During his winter drives up Interstate 80 toward Lake Tahoe, Sean Bigley keeps his eyes peeled.
    — Corey Schmidt July 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of peeled
Verb
  • But if the numbers hold up, Orange County may have stumbled onto something much bigger than baseball.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2026
  • After departing Ecuador en route to El Segundo, members of the crew stumbled upon an unexpected find inside the ship’s garbage — trash bags filled with cocaine, 430 pounds of it.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of stumbled
Verb
  • According to police, detectives determined that Roper and the juvenile were present when Erving drowned but failed to report the incident and later discarded some of his belongings.
    — Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 13 July 2026
  • The utility offered to give investigators access to the trash containers where the pole was discarded, Kushner wrote, but the commission declined to inspect them.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of discarded

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