Entry Word: shed

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside <a snake's skin doesn't grow as the snake does, so every so often the snake will shed its old skin>

Synonyms exfoliate, molt, slough (also sluff)

Related Words flake, peel, scale; discard

2 to get rid of as useless or unwanted <you need to shed your old notions of propriety and have some fun for a change> — see discard