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Shedding   /ʃˈɛdɪŋ/   Listen
Shedding

noun
1.
The process whereby something is shed.  Synonym: sloughing.
2.
Loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales.  Synonyms: desquamation, peeling.



Shed

verb
(past & past part. shed; pres. part. shedding)
1.
Get rid of.  Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, throw, throw away, throw off.  "Shed your clothes"
2.
Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities.  Synonyms: pour forth, spill.  "Spill blood" , "God shed His grace on Thee"
3.
Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over.  Synonyms: disgorge, spill.
4.
Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers.  Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, slough.



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"Shedding" Quotes from Famous Books



... seated herself on a coffer, and began to doze, she heard the king groan bitterly, weeping and sighing; she then approached the bed softly, and drawing away his custode, the king said to her, giving vent to a heavy sigh, and shedding tears plentifully, insomuch that they interrupted his discourse—'Ah! my dear nurse! my beloved woman, what blood! what murders! Ah! I have followed wicked advice! O my God! pardon me, and be merciful. I know not where I am, they have made me so perplexed and ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) - Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield • Isaac D'Israeli

... Crown? One cannot help saying that if their career in this respect is not checked, their evil policy will land the Empire in a tangle of difficulties from which its rescue will require the highest statesmanship, much expenditure of treasure, if not also the shedding of blood. ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

... was sealed with the blood of the innocent Warwick, who was sent to the scaffold by Henry VII. to satisfy Catharine's father, Ferdinand of Aragon, so were the wrongs of Catharine to be acknowledged by shedding the innocent blood of Anne Boleyn. The connection, as it were, began with the butchery of a boy, reduced to idiocy by ill-treatment, on Tower Hill, and it ended with the butchery of a woman, who had been reduced almost to imbecility by cruelty, on the Tower Green. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 57, July, 1862 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... what this apostle of peace will do when he is ordered into battle. You know, he and his comrades are Unitarians and entertain scruples against shedding blood, except in defence of home and country. Will Manasseh Adorjan fight when he is ordered to, ...
— Manasseh - A Romance of Transylvania • Maurus Jokai

... Gyalpo a vigorous rub-down with a bath-towel. Hassan Khan, with chattering teeth and severe neuralgia, muffled in my 'fisherman's hood' under his turban, was trying to do his work with his unfailing pluck. Mando was shedding futile tears over wet furze which would not light, the small wet corrie was dotted over with the Amritsar men sheltering under rocks and nursing hopeless fires, and fifty mules and horses, with dejected heads and ...
— Among the Tibetans • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs Bishop)


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