noun. The act or process of casting or shedding the skin, shell, hair, feathers, and the like; a molt; ecdysis.

noun. The act or process of separation of dead from living tissue.

noun. The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.

verb. Present participle of slough.

noun. Something sloughed off.

noun. The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.

noun. the process whereby something is shed

"In years past, this kind of sloughing off of the various predilections that make someone an adult didn't have the far-reaching effect that it does today; before the age of viral transmission, YouTubed kingmaking and iRule, prepubescents didn't really have the ability to inflict their will on the rest of us."

biological process  organic process  

abscission  ecdysis  molt  molting  moult  

chambering  charring  cross-presentation  he  mobbing  

ecdysis  

slough