sloughing

Questions about sloughing

What does sloughing mean?

sloughing means "the process whereby something is shed".

How many syllables are in sloughing?

sloughing has 2 syllables and divides as sloug-hing under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sloughing?

Close synonyms include shedding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sloughing a common word?

sloughing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.