slough off

English Thesaurus

1. separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion (verb.contact)

hypernym	:	amputate, cut off,
definition	:	remove surgically (verb.contact)

domain category	:	medicine, practice of medicine,
definition	:	the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries (noun.act)

2. discard as undesirable (verb.possession)

hypernym	:	get rid of, remove,
definition	:	dispose of (verb.possession)