Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sloughing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English

Syllables: slough-ing
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of slough

noun

Something sloughed off.

noun

The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.

Example Sentences

"As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal."
"If all sloughings were successfully recorded, which is not certain since rattle segments were not color-coded during this study, the interval between events averaged 246.1 days (1.5 sloughings per snake per year)."

Inflected Forms

sloughings (plural)

Synonyms

shedding

Questions

What does sloughing mean?: present participle and gerund of slough

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