slough off

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verb

1. discard as undesirable
- the candidate sloughed off his former campaign workers
• Hypernyms:
get rid of, remove
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
• Topics:
medicine, practice of medicine
• Hypernyms:
amputate, cut off
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something