Word Finder - shed

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To part, separate or divide.

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A metal comb shed her golden hair.

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To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.

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When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.

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To pour; to make flow.

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To allow to flow or fall.

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A tarpaulin sheds water.

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To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.

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Can you shed any light on this problem?

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To pour forth, give off, impart.

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To fall in drops; to pour.

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To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.

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To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

She shed it and her boots quickly, wanting to escape to her room before her father cornered her.

The shed was piled high with wood.

Inside, the shed was a complete mess.

He had some of it in his shed then.

Kris lit another torch to shed light on the murals on the floor.

We'd better start working on that Buffalo shed before it gets too hot.

It wasn't the brightest thing to walk all the way out to that shed without any protection after seeing the bear last night, either.

She trudged through the snow to the shed and filled a plastic bucket with pellets.

She hurried into the house and shed her boots and coat as fast as she could.

After Megan saw her off, she returned to the shed and retrieved the twine.

The old tool shed was leaning further to the side each year.

Maybe there's one in the shed.

He opened the windows, which did little to shed light into the stone room with its masculine, black décor.

Alex had the shed built so that she could feed the buffalo without going into the pen, but today she wanted to check on the cow.

His gaze went to the Oracle, who had shed no light on what was going on in his underworld.

Perhaps I should shed a few pounds.

An eerie quiet followed, and she wasn't sure if he'd shed his human body and take out her and everything else.

Down the hill, across the creek and across the field to the buffalo shed? the crisp air traced their progress with a wisp of steam.

Wieland was appointed tutor to her son; and the names of Herder, Goethe and Schiller shed an undying lustre on her court.

Your shell has to shed wind, water and snow to maintain a warm and dry climate inside.

Her first shed allocation was Salisbury, where she worked the south western main line.

A converted sail shed now houses a stylish tea room and Edwardian and Victorian antiques are to be found in the old engine house.

We will also be demolishing the old wooden bier shed in the car park behind the village hall.

Past the stables was a cow shed and then on the corner was the old blacksmiths forge.

It is an act of rebellion against God and we can only be reconciled to him by the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

This is the North end of the double byre, now a single byre turned tractor shed.

There is little but a quick canter through some recent studies, but they shed only a little light.

A detached stone built potting shed with a stone slate roof and timber casement window.

He is in a fair condition despite his ordeal, but is slightly underweight and has been unable to shed his skin properly.

By 1938, an open-air "shed," designed by Joseph Franz, an engineer, had been constructed for the BSO to perform its classical music programs.

She wandered through the house, peering out the window until she spotted a small shed.

Therefore the tears and the blood that were shed were not unavailing; the heroism and the chivalry were not wasted.

There is also a thick woolly under-fur, shed in summer, when the whole coat comes off in blanket-like masses.

Contrary to the habits of all other insects, there yet remains a pellicle that has to be shed, covering every part of the body.

One or more reserve teeth, in various stages of development, lie between the folds of the gum and are ready to take the place of the one in function whenever it is lost by accident, or shed.

Sea-snakes shed their skin frequently; but it peels off in pieces as in lizards, and not as in the freshwater snakes, in which the integuments come off entire.

Thus the revolution was accomplished without a drop of blood being shed, and after a period of provisional government Tuscany was incorporated in the kingdom of Italy.

In a surprisingly short time the feathers clothing the face of the male are shed, and their place is taken by papillae or small caruncles of bright yellow or pale pink.

The tree flowers in April or May, and the winged seeds are shed the following autumn.

Fore-feet with four digits, hind-feet with three; clavicles imperfect; molars divided by enamel-folds into transverse lobes; milk-teeth shed before birth.

This bird is still more beautifully coloured than the chaffinch - especially in summer, when, the brown edges of the feathers being shed, it presents a rich combination of black, white and orange.

Paulet, with loyal and regretful indignation, declined the disgrace proposed to him in a suggestion "to shed blood without law or warrant"; and on the 7th of February the earls of Shrewsbury and Kent arrived at Fotheringay with the commission of the council for execution of the sentence given against his prisoner.

Protect broccoli as it becomes fit for use, or remove to a dry shed or cellar; lettuces and endive, which are best planted in frames; and parsley in frames so as to be accessible.

Owing to liability to necrosis, the permanent retention of such a mass of dead bone would be dangerous; and the antlers are consequently shed annually (or every few years), to be renewed the following year, when, till the animal becomes past its prime, they are larger than their predecessors.

One very important fact recorded by Dr Gadow is that calves and lambs shed their horns at an early age.

It appears at one time to have been embedded in a brick niche, and about 1891 a shed was placed over it, but in 1907 it stood in the open entirely unprotected.

This, however, was not the lesson which was drawn from it by Goethe's contemporaries; they shed tears of sympathy over the lovelorn youth whose burden becomes too great for him to bear.

The Qais could not leave unavenged the blood shed at Merj Rahit.

In all these wars there was not enough blood shed to discolour a sword.

As his work is sealed by his death his body is broken and his blood is shed for them.