Sloughing

Definition: Sloughing

Sloughing

Noun

1. The process whereby something is shed.

Date "sloughing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Domain	Definition
Geography	Sliding of overlying material; same ultimate effect as caving, but usually occurs when bank or an underlying stratum is saturated. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	Minor face and rib falls. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Sloughing

Synonym: shedding (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sloughing

Specialty definitions using "sloughing": crown pillar ♦ deep mining ♦ V-box. (references)

Etymologies containing "sloughing": Vernation. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Bank sloughing. Credit: Unknown.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The result is dulness of sight, a stagnation of the vital circulations, and a general deliquium and sloughing off of all the intellectual faculties.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sloughing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Sloughing" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	88.89%	8	124,375
Noun (singular)	11.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

Language		Translations for "sloughing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		脱落 (slough, Sloughed). (various references)

Danish		skred (debris avalanche, landslide, landslip, mudslide, slide), sammenskridning af brøndvæg. (various references)

Dutch		instorten van de putwanden, afkalven (cave in). (various references)

Finnish		sortuminen (collapse, sinking), maan vieriminen, liukuminen. (various references)

French		glissement (slide, sliding, slip, slipping), détachement de la peau (slip skin), éboulement des parois d'un puits. (various references)

German		Rutschen (crawl, crumble, glide, move over, move up, shove over, shove up, skid, skitter, slide, slip, slither, to skid, to slide, to slip, work down), Einsturz der Bohrlochseitenwand, Abrutschen der Bohrlochseitenwand, Abloesen (to buy off, to buy out), Abgleiten (become run-down, glance off, lapse, slide). (various references)

Greek		κατάρρευση των τοιχωμάτων γεώτρησης, κατολίσθησις (debris avalanche, landslide, landslip, mudslide, slide), αποφλοίωση (barking, coffee bean shelling-polishing, coffee bean skin removing, cornhusking, debarking, decortication, disbarking, full deterioration, hulling, husking, maize husking, parchment removing, peeling, pulping, rossing, scaling, shelling, slip skin). (various references)

Hebrew		קלוף (desquamation, paring, peeled, peeling), � של. (various references)

Italian		distacco epidermico (full deterioration, slip skin), distacco dell'epidermide (full deterioration, slip skin). (various references)

Korean		벗음. (various references)

Pig Latin		oughingslay

Portuguese		queda das paredes de um poço, deslizamento (coasting, creep, creep erosion, idling, skipping, slide, sliding, slip, slippage, slipping, to slide), desabamento das paredes de um poço. (various references)

Russian		сходить сползание. (various references)

Spanish		pellejo (hide, Peel, pelt, skin), desprendimiento de la roca, despellejado (full deterioration, slip skin), deslizamiento (glide, glissade), derrumbamiento de las paredes de un pozo. (various references)

Swedish		skred (avalanche, landslide), väggras i en brunn. (various references)

Turkish		deri değiştirme (Molt, molting, moult, moulting). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Sloughing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Loughrigg, ploughings, slougthing, sluffing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-g-h-i-l-n-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: soughing.
	-2 letters: gosling, gushing, housing, longish, lousing, lushing, sughing.
	-3 letters: ghouls, gluing, gluons, goings, holing, hosing, insoul, losing, loughs, luging, lungis, ogling, shogun, slough, sluing, soling.
	-4 letters: ghoul, glugs, gluon, going, gongs, hilus, hoggs, hongs, iglus, lingo, lings, linos, lions, loins, longs, lough, louis, lungi, lungs, nighs, noggs, noils, ohing, shuln, sling, slung, sough.
	Words containing the letters "g-g-h-i-l-n-o-s-u"
	+4 letters: laughingstock, overslaughing.
	+5 letters: laughingstocks.
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