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shed
Synonyms and Antonyms of shed
1
to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside
2
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
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
dispose of, set aside
Synonym Discussion of shed
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- discard old clothes
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- cast off her friends
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- shed a bad habit
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- finally sloughed off the depression
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- scrap all the old ways
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- would junk our educational system
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