shednoun [ C ]
uk/ʃed/us/ʃed/B2 a small building, usually made of wood, used for storing things:
a tool/storage shed
UK a garden/bicycle shed
a large, simple building used for a particular purpose:
the lambing shed
a cow shed
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- She's planting seeds in the shed.
- We keep our bikes in the shed.
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Garden buildings & structures
- bird table
- birdbath
- cloche
- cold frame
- conservatory
- folly
- gazebo
- glasshouse
- gnome
- greenhouse
- hothouse
- outbuilding
- outhouse
- polytunnel
- potting shed
- sleepout
- summerhouse
- toolshed
- woodshed
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Buildings for storing things
shedverb
uk/ʃed/us/ʃed/present participle shedding, past tense and past participle shedshed verb (GET RID OF)
[ T ] (often used in newspapers) to get rid of something you do not need or want:
900 jobs will be shed over the next few months.
Psychotherapy helped him to shed some of his insecurity/inhibitions.
I'm going on a diet to see if I can shed (= become thinner by losing) a few pounds.
[ T ] to lose a covering, such as leaves, hair, or skin, because it falls off naturally, or to drop something in a natural way or by accident:
The trees shed their leaves in autumn.
They ran down to the water, shedding clothes as they went.
UK A lorry had shed a load of gravel across the road.
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- She's trying to shed her good girl image.
- He's managed to shed eight kilos.
- The bank is preparing to shed 200 branches from its 1,700 network.
- After a six-month diet, she's shed five inches from her hips and six inches from her waist.
- I was warm enough at that point to shed a few layers of clothing.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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shed verb (PRODUCE)
shed tears, blood, light, etc.
C1 to produce tears, light, blood, etc.:
She shed a few tears at her daughter's wedding.
So much blood has been shed (= so many people have been badly hurt or killed) in this war.
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Emitting and ejecting
- carbon emissions
- discharge
- disgorge
- displace
- ejaculate
- ejaculation
- eject
- ejection
- emanate
- emanate from/through sth/sb
- emission
- expulsion
- exude
- give
- give sth off
- projectile
- radiant
- release
- send sth out
- spew
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