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Sloughing

noun
1.
The process whereby something is shed.  Synonym: shedding.





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"Sloughing" Quotes from Famous Books



... most serious. The attempt to save the arm came very near costing him his life. Instead of healing, the wound constantly sloughed, with great loss of blood. As the wound was between the elbow and the shoulder, the danger attending amputation increased with each sloughing, but the poor boy was deaf to all that his doctor could urge, positively refusing to have the arm amputated, and he grew weaker and weaker with every hemorrhage. Meantime several of the sick and wounded were so far cured as to be able to return to duty. Captain Butler ...
— Plantation Sketches • Margaret Devereux
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... seize it would be to condemn herself to continuous unhappiness, for this overt act of his was merely a definite proof of the lack of sympathy between them, of which she had for some time been well aware at heart. As she walked along the street she was conscious that it was a relief to her to be sloughing off the garment of an uncongenial relationship and to be starting life afresh. There was nothing in her immediate surroundings from which she was not glad to escape. Their house was full of blemishes from the stand-point of her later knowledge, and she yearned ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
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... druggist in England. Oatmeal contains two per cent. of protein compounds, the largest portion of which is avenin. A yeast poultice made by stirring Oatmeal into the grounds of strong beer is a capital cleansing and healing application to languid sloughing sores. ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
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Words linked to "Sloughing" :   moult, molting, ecdysis, organic process, biological process, moulting, slough, abscission, shedding, molt


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