Usually means: Shedding or casting off layers.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. sloughing: Merriam-Webster
  2. sloughing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sloughing: Vocabulary.com
  4. sloughing: Wordnik
  5. sloughing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sloughing: Wiktionary
  7. sloughing: Dictionary.com
  8. Sloughing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Sloughing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. sloughing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. sloughing: Rhymezone
  12. Sloughing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. sloughing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. sloughing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Sloughing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sloughing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sloughing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sloughing: Medical dictionary
  4. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sloughing: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See slough as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sloughing)

noun:  Something sloughed off.
noun:  (zoology) The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.

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