English Dictionary

slough

/slʌf/

verb

(transitive) To shed (skin). / (intransitive) To slide off (like a layer of skin). / (transitive, card games) To discard.

Snakes slough their skin regularly.

意味（1）

(transitive) To shed (skin).

This skin is being sloughed.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To slide off (like a layer of skin).

A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.

意味（3）

(transitive, card games) To discard.

East sloughed a heart.

意味（4）

(intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.