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Cast (off)
Answer for the clue "Cast (off) ", 8 letters:
sloughed
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vb. (en-past of: slough)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slough \Slough\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sloughed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sloughing .] (Med.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly. ...
Usage examples of sloughed.
All effort was aimed at combating the first real test of Eosian supremacy since the Mentats had sloughed off their corporeal forms to find a type of mmortahty by usmg the strong Catteni bodies.
Layer upon layer of his mind split and sloughed, forming into monsters.
Giving a reptilian shudder, the serpent sloughed them off onto the ground.
She sloughed off the wrap-around boots and the coverall and, keeping the vine rope in one hand, eased herself into the water.
She sloughed her head around, rustling her wings angrily, her eyes blazing opalescent pools of fire.
His legs and arms had gone to sleep, besides which he felt alarmingly light, as if he had sloughed off at least half of his inconsiderable mass.
Just as his rotting body polluted this water, before his flesh sloughed from his bones.
That was where this fragment of the history of a vampire world had its origin: that ugly pipe where Korath had died the true death, which still contained his bones, sloughed clean and washed white by the water.
And that diseased old tyrant, Dramal Doombody: by now he is no more, sloughed away to rot and ruin.
Frederick was twenty-five, and had sloughed off his blue uniform, almost as Rod had donned his, when Scotland Yard had made him first a detective and then a sergeant.
Listening to the heartbreak in Cormack's voice was like listening to a version of himself he'd sloughed off like a snake shedding skin.
Brittle twigs and sloughed strips of bark crunched beneath the wayfarers' boots.
Dead tissues were sloughed away, fresh cells grew as quickly as they could be made.