slough off
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
discard as undesirable
the candidate sloughed off his former campaign workers
Types & categories
- get rid of hypernym
Sense 2 verb
separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
Types & categories
- amputate hypernym
Related & opposite
- practice of medicine domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | get rid of |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | practice of medicine |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | amputate |