Sloughing is valid Scrabble Word

Is sloughing a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is sloughing valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for SLOUGHING in dictionary:

VERB:

SLOUGH, to cast off
shed or remove (a layer of dead skin)
get rid of (something undesirable or no longer required)
(of dead skin) drop off; be shed
(of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression

NOUN:

a town in SE England to the west of London; population 119,400 (est. 2009).
The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
the process whereby something is shed

Words related to SLOUGHING

slough10 sloughed13 sloughs11

How to use SLOUGHING in a sentence

Since then, the inflammation and sloughing of the part has been attended with a copious suppuration, great loss of substance, extreme debility and emaciation.
As we have seen, this state of affairs is probably ushering in a condition of spreading suppuration of the coronary cushion, and considerable gangrene and sloughing of the skin.
By this means sloughing of the diseased portion is quickly obtained, and nothing but an ordinary open wound left for treatment.
It should be mentioned, however, that when sloughing can be in any way induced to take place naturally it is better to allow this to take place.
At certain seasons he has kept these boots on for such a length of time, that when he drew them off the skin came away together with the leather, like that of a sloughing snake.
We reached the Sentinel Hotel, and sloughing off the most of the fine emery-like mountain dust with which we were enveloped, we got our first good look at the Yosemite Falls.
He drew a deep breath and stretched widely, sloughing off mental sloth in the physical act as young things can.
No benefit results from sloughing and it should be avoided.
A yeast poultice made by stirring Oatmeal into the grounds of strong beer is a capital cleansing and healing application to languid sloughing sores.
When they speak of our sloughing our dead selves, they imagine the husk left behind as a dead length of hollow scale or skin.

There was some sloughing, but this was treated on general surgical principles.
This patient ultimately recovered, but only after sloughing and prolonged suppuration.
They were wounded, broken, sloughing off their outer shape in the deadly struggle against years, weather, and man.
But to be fair to him they were but the sloughing of a wound that would not heal.

Similar words containing SLOUGH without suffix ing

slough10 sloughi11 sloughs11 sloughy14 sloughed13 sloughis12 sloughier13 sloughiest14

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