slough off

Verb
  1. Discard as undesirable (synset 202227628)
    "the candidate sloughed off his former campaign workers"
    is a type of: get rid of, remove - dispose of
  2. Separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion (synset 201257476)
    referred to in: medicine, practice of medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
    is a type of: amputate, cut off - remove surgically

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