Verb
separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
discard as undesirable
Source: WordNetIt is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? Arthur Miller
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! Derek Jacobi
How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.”. Friedrich Nietzsche
Those tempted to slough off the helpful role of the state [in the earning of private property] should... "compare the fortune accumulated by Cornelius Vanderbilt in America with what he might have accumulated had he been adopted when an infant by a family of Hottentots." Linda McQuaig
the candidate sloughed off his former campaign workers Source: Internet
“A new woman does not just slough off her old self; she tosses it aside with force.” Source: Internet