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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
Arthur Miller

Meaning of "slough off" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SLOUGH OFF

slough off  [slʌf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLOUGH OFF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Slough off is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES SLOUGH OFF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of slough off in the English dictionary

The definition of slough off in the dictionary is to cast off.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SLOUGH OFF


bluff
blʌf
bumfluff
ˈbʌmˌflʌf
clough
klʌf
counterbluff
ˈkaʊntəˌblʌf
fluff
flʌf
luff
lʌf
outbluff
ˌaʊtˈblʌf
pluff
plʌf
sluff
slʌf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLOUGH OFF

slouch
slouch hat
slouched
sloucher
slouchier
slouchiest
slouchily
slouchiness
slouching
slouchingly
slouchy
slough
Slough of Despond
sloughy
Slovak
Slovak Republic
Slovakia
Slovakian
sloven

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLOUGH OFF

better off
brush off
cut off
day off
drop off
get off
hold off
kick off
laugh off
mouth off
on and off
pay off
polish off
push off
shoot one´s mouth off
show off
switch off
take off
touch off
turn off

Synonyms and antonyms of slough off in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SLOUGH OFF»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «slough off» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of slough off

Translation of «slough off» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SLOUGH OFF

Find out the translation of slough off to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of slough off from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «slough off» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

蜕掉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

slough off
570 millions of speakers

English

slough off
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्लाव बंद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تنصل من
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шелушиться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desprendem
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আপনি একবার শুধুমাত্র তরুণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dépouiller
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melepaskan diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abschütteln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スラウオフ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

허물 해제
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Slough mati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bong ra
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சறுக்கல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्लॉफ ऑफ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

deri değiştirmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

slough off
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pozbywanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лущитися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Slough off
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

slough off
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Slough af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kasta av
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Slough off
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of slough off

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLOUGH OFF»

The term «slough off» is regularly used and occupies the 80.819 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about slough off

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2 QUOTES WITH «SLOUGH OFF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word slough off.
1
Derek Jacobi
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
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Arthur Miller
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLOUGH OFF»

Discover the use of slough off in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to slough off and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style
The spelling of this word as sluff is not widely accepted, even in the slang meaning of the phrasal verb slough off, "to be lazy, shirk," illustrated by the phrase sluffing off at work. The word slough in the sense of "to cast off" is unrelated to slough, ...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005
2
Biotechnology for Odor and Air Pollution Control
The hydrodynamics of liquid flow within the biofilter affect the slough-off of biomass from the support medium's surface. The relationship between the rate of shear loss of the biofilm (Rslough-off) and the biofilm thickness is given by Rittman ...
Zarook Shareefdeen, Ajay Singh, 2005
3
The Great Turning
Until the creation of the physical universe, no entity had use for slough-off. The Dreamer wondered, could the slough-off of omnipresent beings and other self- aware entities — a material rich in concepts, life sparks, and data — have use in the ...
Rennie Davis, 2003
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Aristotle's Collection [ 29 Books]:
(Of animals that hide or go torpid some slough off what is called their 'old-age'. This name is applied to the outermost skin, and to the casing that envelops the developing organism.) In discussing the case of terrestrial vivipara we stated that  ...
Publishthis, 2013
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Lacrosse: Technique and Tradition, The Second Edition of the ...
Although the defenseman has his man, he also will slough off of him when he is not in a dangerous area in order to lend more support to the on-ball defender. If his man moves into a more dangerous area, the defenseman will move closer to  ...
David G. Pietramala, Neil A. Grauer, 2008
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Get Off the Menopause Roller Coaster: Natural Solutions for ...
But progesterone predominates during the latter half of the cycle and is responsible for allowing the uterus to slough off its lining. ERT provides the body with estrogen, which dutifully piles up the padding on the uterine walls. But without ...
Shari Lieberman, 2000
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You Are Not Alone: 15 People With Behcet's
... never seen the skin slough off like that before, although l've had that "raw" condition at times. ln the past, l always attributed it to having a yeast infection, or something like that. Now l guess it's the same kind of thing that happens in my mouth ...
‎1997
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The Two-word Verb: A Dictionary of the Verb-preposition ...
Slough To dispose of, get rid of. slough off 1. T(l) In the spring rattlesnakes slough off their last year's skin. [Abandon it, work their way out of it.] 2. T (1) Ext. My old uncle advised me to slough off my old companions (former associates, fears, ...
George A. Meyer, 1975
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Garner's Modern American Usage
B. Misspelled sluffas a Verb. Slough off (= [1] to shed an outer skin; or [2] to cast off, discard) is sometimes incorrectly written ✳sluff off (a phonetic spelling)—e.g.: “As he delves deeper into a lousy world in which people steal children for money,  ...
Bryan Garner, 2009
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Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse: Water Quality Management ...
The heavy growth may also cause the filter effluent turbidity to fluctuate due to slough-off of the biological films. An occasional shock treatment of the heavy growth situation with chlorination may cause the biological films to slough off ...
Takashi Asano, 1998

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLOUGH OFF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term slough off is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rubio, Paul slough off immigration protesters
USA Today OnPolitics. Menu. Popular Now: 2016. Rubio, Paul slough off immigration protesters. By David Jackson June 18, 2015 3:15 pm ET. 244 shares. «USA TODAY, Jun 15»
2
Soil slides slough off shoulders, overpasses on I-20
Soils supporting the shoulders and overpasses of Interstate 20 from Monroe to the Mississippi River are collapsing at the rate of sand castles in high tide. «Monroe News Star, Jan 15»
3
With NFC South at stake, Falcons, Panthers slough off detractors
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Georgia Dome will be the NFL theater of the absurd and bizarre this Sunday. One team is atop the division with a record of ... «USA TODAY, Dec 14»
4
Arctic Grayling Habitat Limited By Chena Slough Invasive
The floodplain project cut the slough off completely from the Tanana River, so today, it's fed only by ground water. Not only did there used to be lots more water ... «Alaska Public Radio Network, Dec 12»
5
Mental coaching helps Yani Tseng, Rory McIlroy slough off slumps
Tseng kicked off her 2012 campaign with three quick wins but even before her season took a serious nosedive the seemingly carefree champion of yore was ... «SB Nation, Oct 12»
6
Teenage girl improving after crash into slough
STANWOOD, Wash. - A teenage girl who was critically hurt Wednesday when she crashed into slough off the Stillaguamish River is improving, her family says. «KOMO News, Apr 09»
7
How to Avoid a Staph Infection and MRSA
The rash causes the top layer of skin to slough off, exposing red and raw skin that resembles a scald or burn. Newborns and very young children are most often ... «Everyday Health, Oct 07»
8
Students slough off barriers to become masseurs
Some recent university graduates who have had trouble finding a job have resorted to working in bath centers as masseurs. «China Daily, Apr 07»
9
Chinese Slough Off Old Barriers to Divorce
SHANGHAI -- Wu Meifen, 33, was seven months pregnant when she saw the short text message. It was on her husband's mobile phone, she said, and it ... «Washington Post, Apr 07»

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