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shedding

verb , present participle of shed

Synonyms and Antonyms of shedding

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 shedding

exfoliating, molting, slipping, sloughing (also sluffing)

Words Related to shedding

flaking, peeling, scaling

chucking, discarding, ditching, flinging (off or away), jettisoning, junking, scrapping, shucking (off), throwing away, throwing out, unloading

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 shedding

cashiering, casting (off), chucking, deep-sixing, discarding, ditching, dumping, eighty-sixing (or 86ing), exorcising (also exorcizing), flinging (off or away), jettisoning, junking, laying by, losing, pitching, rejecting, scrapping, shucking (off), sloughing (off) also sluffing (off) , throwing away, throwing out, tossing, unloading

Words Related to shedding

abandoning, abdicating, deserting, forsaking

dismissing, kicking out

abolishing, annihilating, eliminating, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extinguishing, extirpating, liquidating, removing, rooting (out), stamping (out), wiping out

Phrases Synonymous with shedding

disposing of, setting aside

Near Antonyms of shedding

adopting, embracing, taking on

employing, using, utilizing

holding, holding back, keeping, retaining

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