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shed

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of shed

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 of shed

exfoliate, molt, slip, slough (also sluff)
Words Related to shed

flake, peel, scale

chuck, discard, ditch, fling (off or away), jettison, junk, scrap, shuck (off), throw away, throw out, unload

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
Synonyms of shed

cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, discard, ditch, dump, eighty-six (or 86), exorcise (also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shuck (off), slough (off) also sluff (off) , throw away, throw out, toss, unload
Words Related to shed

abandon, abdicate, desert, forsake

dismiss, kick out

abolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out
Phrases Synonymous with shed

dispose of, set aside
Near Antonyms of shed

adopt, embrace, take on

employ, use, utilize

hold, hold back, keep, retain

Synonym Discussion of shed

discard, cast, shed, slough, scrap, junk mean to get rid of. discard implies the letting go or throwing away of something that has become useless or superfluous though often not intrinsically valueless.
    • discard old clothes
cast, especially when used with off, away, or out, implies a forceful rejection or repudiation.
    • cast off her friends
shed and slough imply a throwing off of something both useless and encumbering and often suggest a consequent renewal of vitality or luster.
    • shed a bad habit
    • finally sloughed off the depression
scrap and junk imply throwing away or breaking up as worthless in existent form.
    • scrap all the old ways
    • would junk our educational system

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