sloughed

Meaning

of Slough

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I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life. Lauren Bacall

Antlers (such as on deer ) are derived from bone tissue: when mature, the skin and fur covering of the antlers, termed "velvet", is sloughed and scraped off to expose the bone of the antlers. Source: Internet

As a result, tissues beyond the secondary phloem including the epidermis and cortex, in many cases tend to be pushed outward and are eventually "sloughed off" (shed). Source: Internet

Stebbins & Cohen (1995) pp. 10–16 The animal often then eats the resulting sloughed skin. Source: Internet

Here, a group of established artists — some of whom are still perceived as cool — sloughed their dignity for five minutes of unadulterated cheese to plug the importance of arts programs. Source: Internet

In the 1500s and 1600s, some scientists began to think that diseases like plague might be spread by tiny particles that a sick person exhaled or that sloughed off a sick person's body. Source: Internet