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v. Present participle of slough.

n. Something sloughed off.

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

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

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

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

n. 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   

ecdysis    molt    moult    abscission    molting   

ecdysis   

slough   

reheating    suturing    stuartrayner    ubiquitination    mobbing