Crossword-Solution: SLOUGHED 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Sloughed imp. & p. p. of Slough

We have 5 clues for the answer “SLOUGHED”

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Cast (off), as a snakeskin 1 answer
Molted. 2 answers
Shed 52 answers
cast-off 56 answers
Cast off 65 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SLOUGHED (5)

Sloughed from him was the last vestige of artificial caste—once again he was the primeval hunter—the first man—the highest caste type of the human race.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
With a singular clearness of mental vision he perceived that the part of him which brought bad dreams had been sloughed off, like a serpent's skin.
The Market-Place Harold Frederic 2008
She was as far removed from Billy's sphere as the stars themselves; but Billy had loved her and learned from her, and in trying to become more as he knew the men of her class were he had sloughed off much of the uncouthness that had always been a part of him, and all of the rowdyism.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
Presently I came to a meeting of roads, and to go straight forward it was necessary to pass through a quagmire; remembering, however, the words of my friend the beldame I went straight forward, though in so doing I was sloughed up to the knees.
Wild Wales George Borrow 1996
Horsley collected 20 instances of operators who made a similar attempt, Annandale being the first one; his success was likely due to antisepsis, as previously the testicles had always sloughed.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996

Quotes with SLOUGHED (3)

Also — for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled by reasonable, doing-their-job officials about the length of and distinguishing moles upon their husbands’ genitalia, a sufficiency of children upon whose legitimacy the British Government had cast its ever-reasonable doubts — mingling with the remnants of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-o…
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
There is a phase of melancholy — a phase that has sloughed all urgency — that seems to me always a revelation of that ancient, familiar thing, my true self. If there is anything in a person with which one may be in love, surely it can only ever be the self that such melancholy reveals. There are potent and austere traditions that teach us a true self that has no qualities, no atmosphere, and which thus could never be revealed by melancholia; some of these traditions maintain,…
Quentin S. Crisp The Little One: A Meditation
Glanced up and caught Ammu's gaze. Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong-footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an old snakeskin. Its marks , its scars its wouns from old wars and the walking backwards days all fell away. In its abscence it left an aura, a palpable shimmering that was as plain as water in a river or the sun in the sky. As plain to feel the heat on a hot day, or the tug of a fish on a taut line. So obvious that no-one noticed.…
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
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Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1983–2019).