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