verb
- shedding or casting off dead tissue, skin, or other material
- discarding or getting rid of something unwanted
Usage: medical; biological
noun
- the process of shedding dead tissue or skin
Usage: medical
Examples
- The wound is sloughing off dead tissue as it heals.
- Snakes are sloughing their old skin.
- The company is sloughing off unprofitable divisions.
- He’s sloughing his bad habits one by one.
- The sloughing of damaged cells is a natural healing process.
- Proper wound care prevents excessive sloughing.
- The patient showed signs of tissue sloughing around the burn area.