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shedverb to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) asidea snake's skin doesn't grow as the snake does, so every so often the snake will shed its old skin exfoliate, molt, slip, slough(also sluff) flake, peel, scalechuck, discard, ditch, fling (off or away), jettison, junk, scrap, shuck (off), throw away, throw out, unload to get rid of as useless or unwantedyou need to shed your old notions of propriety and have some fun for a change cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, discard, ditch, dump, eighty-six(or 86), exorcise(also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shuck (off), slough (off)also sluff (off), throw away, throw out, toss, unload abandon, abdicate, desert, forsakedismiss, kick outabolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out dispose of, set aside adopt, embrace, take onemploy, use, utilizehold, hold back, keep, retain discard, cast, shed, slough, scrap, junk mean to get rid of.discard implies the letting go or throwing away of something that has become useless or superfluous though often not intrinsically valueless.discard old clothes cast, especially when used with off, away, or out, implies a forceful rejection or repudiation.cast off her friends shed and slough imply a throwing off of something both useless and encumbering and often suggest a consequent renewal of vitality or luster.shed a bad habit finally sloughed off the depression scrap and junk imply throwing away or breaking up as worthless in existent form.scrap all the old ways would junk our educational system before the 12th century |