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Definition of shed :
1. A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.
2. A parting; a separation; a division.
3. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
4. of Shed
5. That which parts, divides, or sheds; - used in composition, as in watershed.
6. The act of shedding or spilling; - used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
7. The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.
8. To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
9. To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
10. To fall in drops; to pour.
11. To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
12. To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.
13. To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
14. To separate; to divide.
15. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
Synonyms:
lose your balance/footing, put down, slough, give, confound, swing, sink, have, cast aside, fox, sick, vomit up, ditch, cast off, knock off, project, expend, fell, hold, be sick, lower, molt, frame, mold, exfoliate, bewilder, cubbyhole, vagabond, roll, outbuilding, cellar, eradicate, lose, devolve, put, rove, fall, forfeit, pretermit, descend, put away, mould, shake, cat, bedevil, bunker, flip, drift, plunge, arsenal, drip, come down, closet, bemuse, set down, switch, regorge, stray, caducous, put on, armory, exuviate, talk, befuddle, leave out, hut, spend, move, moult, retch, discombobulate, hurl, roam, couch, overlook, radiate, unload, redact, toss out, strike down, miss, send away, dribble, toss away, boathouse, ramble, eighty-six, go down, contrive, confuse, regurgitate, honk, dispose of, throw off, spue, omit, remove, cast, flatten, cupboard, slip, thrust, slip away, cast away, hurtle, pitch, swan, lean-to, cashier, draw, deciduous, drop off, wander, throw away, pour forth, armoury, degenerate, woodshed, exorcise, throw out, dangle, do without, make, overleap, puke, cast out, do away with, splatter, fuddle, range, tramp, bonded warehouse, dump, send packing, throw, plummet, chuck out, chuck, escape from, shake off, toss, irradiate, shuck, fling, drop down, lay by, run out, upchuck, neglect, spill, replace, barf, cut down, purge, deteriorate, slop, throw up, mislay, slough also sluff
reject (part of speech: verb)
discard, oppugn, clip, disclaim, snip, blacklist, vomit, curtail, ejaculate, eject, shear, discharge, abandon, secrete, exclude, cut, exude, chop, check, emit, cull, jilt, blackball, excrete, reject, excise, disapprove, seep, crop, exhaust, lop, drain, belch, disgorge, erupt, scrap, deep-six, evacuate, jettison, vent, deny, trash, disallow, bar, junk, eliminate, spew
rejected (part of speech: adjective)
denied, abandoned, disapproved, jilted, jettisoned, excluded, blacklisted, excised, junked, blackballed, barred, disallowed, scrapped, deep-sixed, snipped, disclaimed, rejected, trashed, checked, chopped, discarded, eliminated
divest (part of speech: verb)
divest, strip, bare, undress, peel, disrobe, denude, unclothe, expose, unclad
relinquish (part of speech: verb)
forgo, defect, relinquish, release, desert, capitulate, resign, quit, surrender, vacate, waive, withdraw, disown, give up, forsake, abdicate, renounce
rid (part of speech: verb)
dispose, let go, cancel, rid, leave, dispel, dismiss, relegate, drop, part with
relinquished (part of speech: adjective)
renounced, resigned, abdicated, deserted, released, capitulated, relinquished, forsaken, disowned, vacated, foregone, waived, withdrawn, surrendered
Usage examples:
- Will not the blood which we have shed cry from the ground for vengeance upon our sins?" - "The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I", Thomas Clarkson.
- " Still the blood which has been shed is not dry. - "The White Shield", Bertram Mitford.
- Saying this, he again shed many tears. - "Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete", John Lothrop Motley.