Sloughing
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
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verb.
Present participle of
slough
.
noun.
Something
sloughed
off.
noun.
The act of casting off the skin or shell;
ecdysis
.
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noun.
the process whereby something is shed