1. sheds or casts off (dead skin, scales, or outer layer)
Usage: third person singular present
2. discards or gets rid of something unwanted
Usage: third person singular present; informal

1. plural of sluff; dead tissue that separates from healthy tissue
Usage: medical

Examples

• The snake sluffs its old skin as it grows.
• Dead skin sluffs off naturally during healing.
• She sluffs her old clothes every spring cleaning.
• The company sluffs unprofitable divisions regularly.
• The wound showed signs of sluffs forming.
• Medical staff removed the sluffs from the patient’s burn.
• Healthy tissue grows beneath the sluffs.