as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily
the unpleasant task of sloughing through the muck to retrieve the ball
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also sluffed
as in shed
to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside
the snake is sloughing its old skin
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Recent Examples of sloughed
Elizabeth Nelson, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
The Abandons feels noticeably scant in world-building and character development, as if all of the details and concepts Sutter would normally include in a 13-episode season got sloughed off.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
About 300 to 400 linear feet (91 to 122 meters) of a coastal slope sloughed off, falling about 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 meters) toward the ocean, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Dirt, body oil, and dead skin cells sloughed off during bathing also contribute to this sticky residue.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
The sins of the father are cheerfully sloughed off on the son.
—Elizabeth Nelson, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
The Abandons feels noticeably scant in world-building and character development, as if all of the details and concepts Sutter would normally include in a 13-episode season got sloughed off.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
About 300 to 400 linear feet (91 to 122 meters) of a coastal slope sloughed off, falling about 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 meters) toward the ocean, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Dirt, body oil, and dead skin cells sloughed off during bathing also contribute to this sticky residue.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloughed
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Shielded by her team, Cardi B shuffled out to the street, a blob of black nylon.—
Jane Bua,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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Women in America’s boardrooms made strides as corporations shuffled their mostly White and male lineups in the face of the historic pushback in 2020.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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The melting pot implied that citizens gradually shed the distinctiveness of their traditions in order to become fully American.—
Ari Berman,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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Once in the asteroid's orbit, NASA's spacecraft is slated to take pictures of the asteroid's surface and shed light on its composition, over the course of about two years.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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Grgich stomped grapes at age 3.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
15 May 2026
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International researchers have officially identified Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, a massive dinosaur that has stomped its way into the record books as the largest ever found in Southeast Asia.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 2026
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Long before Richard Gadd peeled back a layer of his psyche with Baby Reindeer, his Emmy-winning Netflix show, the story for his new limited series Half Man, now airing on HBO, lived in his head.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
14 May 2026
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From there, everyone rows imua (forward), keeping eyes peeled for sea turtles, sea urchin, and on a really good day in January or February, a mama whale and her baby.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
14 May 2026
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Love Island had shifted what had previously been an unshakable self-identification and stumbled into comic profundity.—
Anna Peele,
Vulture,
20 May 2026
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The Dodgers might have stumbled upon a way to keep Shohei Ohtani performing well on the mound and at the plate this season.—
Michael Huntley,
Oc Register,
17 May 2026
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Some of the visceral mechanisms that gave it life have to be discarded.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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Interestingly, the blowing agent is derived from oyster shells discarded by the seafood industry, and the magnesium and calcium are sourced as natural byproducts of seawater desalination.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
19 May 2026
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“Sloughed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloughed. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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