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  • as indescend
  • as indismiss
  • as ingoldbrick
  • as inshirk

synonyms for slough off

  • cascade
  • collapse
  • crash
  • dip
  • disembark
  • dive
  • go down
  • penetrate
  • plummet
  • plunge
  • settle
  • sink
  • slide
  • slip
  • stumble
  • subside
  • swoop
  • trickle
  • tumble
  • coast
  • crouch
  • decline
  • deplane
  • detrain
  • dismount
  • dribble
  • drop
  • fall
  • gravitate
  • ground
  • incline
  • light
  • pitch
  • plop
  • prolapse
  • set
  • slant
  • slope
  • slump
  • stoop
  • submerge
  • toboggan
  • topple
  • trip
  • weep
  • cataract
  • cave in
  • fall prostrate
  • get down
  • get off
  • lose balance

antonyms for slough off

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  • ascend
  • go up
  • grow
  • increase
  • leave
  • rise
  • even
  • level
  • mount
  • pour
  • straighten
  • accept
  • allow
  • hold
  • keep
  • legalize
  • permit
  • promote
  • retain
  • appoint
  • employ
  • engage
  • hire
  • maintain
  • preserve
  • secure
  • welcome
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How to use slough off in a sentence

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.
MOTOR MATT'S "CENTURY" RUNSTANLEY R. MATTHEWS
He began to be afraid lest he might be overwhelmed in this slough of a petty, useless, and vicious existence.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY
There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.
MOTOR MATT'S "CENTURY" RUNSTANLEY R. MATTHEWS
She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
Consequently Tchaikovsky delighted in hearing her recall the joys and sorrows of those far-off days.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY
That little chapel, he continues, which contains the cast-off garments of his soul, is bright with solid silver.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
The people who lived in those far-off days had no special occasion to know or to care what time it was.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUS
These finishing-off rows look pretty done in pale pink or blue wool.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEY
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