SHUCKED (OFF) Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

shucked (off)

verb

past tense of shuck (off)

as in discarded

to get rid of as useless or unwanted bad habits are hard to shuck off

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Once discarded, these traps also inadvertently capture birds and other wildlife.

— Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 8 Oct. 2026
Responses with the error were discarded, as were voters who had already been attempted, and quotas were reset.

— New York Times, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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Hurricane Lane dumped 58 inches (147 centimeters) of rain on Kahuna Falls, Hawaii, the following year.

— Zachary Handlos, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Remnants of Hurricane Isaias dumped more than 5 inches of rain in parts of North Carolina, causing flash flooding, at least five landslides and 11,000 power outages early Sunday.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2026

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During Trautman’s visit in the fall of 1942, when matériel was unloaded off the coast of Australia, it was stacked on the beaches, fully exposed to the elements.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Kahn’s heirs unloaded the place in 1939, a few years after his death, and it was chopped up over the years to serve as retirement housing for city workers, a military training compound, and a boarding school, per Forbes.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of unloaded

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Meanwhile, Pitt ditched his signature whimsical style for a classic black suit moment.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 24 Sep. 2026
The Boston Globe’s story about what happened when a lesbian bar in western Massachusetts ditched its mask mandate is worth the price of a subscription.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026

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His candidate lost in December 2018 to Kabila's long-term political rival, Tshisekedi.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
Ryder’s Law was reintroduced this year after another carriage horse collapsed and died in Central Park, and in a separate incident, tourist Romanch Mahajan, 18, died after falling off a carriage after the operator lost control.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026

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