Synonyms for shed
ʃɛdshed

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1. shed

   Synonyms:
   emit, diffuse, cast, drop, scatter, spill, pour, throw off

   Antonyms:
   absorb, collect, assume, retain

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1. shedadjective

   an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage

2. caducous, shedverb

   shed at an early stage of development

   "most amphibians have caducous gills"; "the caducous calyx of a poppy"

   Synonyms:
   caducous

3. shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, dropverb

   get rid of

   "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"

   Synonyms:
   roam, project, flip, overleap, spue, redact, strike down, fuddle, drift, put down, draw, send away, have, hold, fling, hurl, slough, mold, deteriorate, cast, rove, put, bedevil, roll, pour forth, befuddle, spend, omit, throw away, frame, moult, dangle, confound, vomit up, chuck out, mould, throw off, toss, throw up, expend, contrive, retch, purge, give, discombobulate, tramp, toss away, drip, disgorge, cat, cut down, dribble, thrust, overlook, stray, devolve, leave out, miss, shake, exuviate, bewilder, fox, cast away, sink, shake off, chuck, pretermit, make, range, molt, vagabond, swan, unload, drop off, set down, fell, cast off, knock off, toss out, flatten, ramble, spill, neglect, cast aside, throw, regurgitate, wander, vomit, throw out, hurtle, put away, escape from, spew, honk, dismiss, dispose, cast out, regorge, drop, drop down, switch, discharge, upchuck, send packing, be sick, swing, discard, barf, confuse, sick, couch, bemuse, degenerate, puke

4. spill, shed, pour forthverb

   pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities

   "shed tears"; "spill blood"; "God shed His grace on Thee"

   Synonyms:
   molt, throw, cast off, pour forth, talk, exuviate, slough, splatter, cast, disgorge, drop, run out, moult, throw away, throw off, shake off, spill, slop

5. spill, shed, disgorgeverb

   cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over

   "spill the beans all over the table"

   Synonyms:
   vomit, talk, splatter, upchuck, barf, cast off, be sick, molt, spill, honk, moult, puke, chuck, pour forth, throw, cast, spue, slop, purge, regorge, slough, vomit up, shake off, throw off, disgorge, throw away, run out, drop, cat, sick, spew, regurgitate, throw up, retch, exuviate

6. shed, molt, exuviate, moult, sloughverb

   cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

   "our dog sheds every Spring"

   Synonyms:
   drop, disgorge, cast, exuviate, throw, throw away, moult, slough, spill, throw off, molt, cast off, shake off, pour forth

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1. • Move
   • Pour
   • Remove

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1. shedverb

   Synonyms:
   spill, effuse, pour out

2. shedverb

   Synonyms:
   spread, diffuse, scatter

3. shedverb

   Synonyms:
   cast, throw off, put off, lay aside, let fall

4. shednoun

   Synonyms:
   hut, hovel, cot, cabin

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1. shednoun

   Synonyms:
   outhouse, lean-to, shack, shanty

2. shedverb

   Synonyms:
   diffuse, emit, radiate, spread, cast, exuviate, moult, mew, discard, doff

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1. List of paraphrases for "shed":

   hangar, excrete, cabin, throw, boathouse, shack, remission, cast, spilled, barn

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1. List of known nicknames for "Shed":

   Wax, René Pawlowitz, The Traveller

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1. William Schaffner:

   When kids get infected, they shed the virus for a longer period of time than adults do, so they're really the people who bring the virus into the family and spread it about to the neighbors and, well, everybody.

2. Jessica Stern:

   This was a disingenuous effort to shed the dignity of LGBT employees at the U.N., while clawing at the authority of the secretary general, those who sided with Russia should be ashamed of such a craven vote.

3. Michael Raupp:

   You’ve got a creature that spends 17 years in a COVID-like existence, isolated underground sucking on plant sap, right ? In the 17th year these teenagers are going to come out of the earth by the billions if not trillions. They’re going to try to best everything on the planet that wants to eat them during this critical period of the nighttime when they’re just trying to grow up, they’re just trying to be adults, shed that skin, get their wings, go up into the treetops, escape their predators.

4. Cortni Borgerson:

   You’ll be able to hear when you’re close, these cicadas live as nymphs underground for 17 years, and then tunnel up through the ground to the surface where they shed into their winged adult phase, living only 4-6 weeks. Cicada are tastiest in their teneral stage, which is right after they’ve shed into their adult forms, but are still pale while before their exoskeletons have hardened.

5. Scientologist John Travolta:

   I've been so happy with my (Scientology) experience in the last 40 years that I really don't have anything to say that would shed light on (a documentary) so decidedly negative.