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shed English

Meaning shed meaning

What does shed mean?
Definitions in simple English

shed

A shed is a small building made out of wood that is often used to hold tools. Let me go put my tools in the shed.

shed

If something sheds its hair, skin, etc., it naturally drops it. If something sheds its light, tears, etc., it produces them. Can you help to shed some light on the problem? The tears she shed ran down her face.

shed

get rid of he shed his image as a pushy boss shed your clothes (= spill) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities shed tears spill blood God shed His grace on Thee an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers our dog sheds every Spring (= spill) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over spill the beans all over the table (= caducous) shed at an early stage of development most amphibians have caducous gills the caducous calyx of a poppy

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Conjugation shed conjugation

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shed · verb

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Simple sentences

After he had watered the garden, he coiled the hose and put it into the shed.
I cannot shed a tear for that horrible man.
She shed plentiful tears when her beloved dog was killed in an accident.
She shed tears while listening to the story.
She shed bitter tears.
She tried not to shed tears.
They shed their blood for their independence.
We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words - within our borders, and around the world.
His unique perspective helped shed light on the situation.
They're either in the shed or in the den.
The girls shed tears after reading the novel.
He didn't shed a tear.
Clean out the shed and throw away things you don't need.
Such was her joy that she shed tears.
She shed tears.
He is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Movie subtitles

And it was full of food from the shed.
But I didn't steal the food, and I didn't burn down the shed.
People weren't taking too kindly me being at camp 'cause apparently I stole food from the shed and then burned it down.
With the shed and the food?
Perhaps he could shed some light.
There's a shed out back.
Let's hope your father will be able to shed some light on it.
Come on, shed the chapeau.
Jones vindicated his errors, and I say that the soil of Texas shall be all the more fertile for the blood he shed to the benefit of those who come after him.
I cannot tolerate in silence these accusations that the law was violated by court-martial officers who shed their blood on the battlefields of France while others stab her in the back.
We have not shed our blood in vain.
When your time comes, I doubt if a single tear will be shed over you.
A man told me that the doctor's down at the car shed. with the wounded soldiers.
Miss Scarlett, I's scared to go down there at the car shed.
A WHITE MAN'S BLOOD HAS BEEN SHED!
You'll find a couple more pheasants hanging up in the back shed.
We'll rest in that shed.
He's coming around the shed.
They'll put Pres in an open shed with a hundred others.
We were hoping, Mr. Holmes, you may be able to shed some light on the occurrences that have puzzled us down here.
He hasn't shed a tear.
She's got plenty on her arms, baby. - She does shed, doesn't she?
It's just a frog, but shed tears as a man.
That's the boy. Right around to the tool shed.
Soon as you finish your soup, mosey around to that tool shed.
Lee Jae Ha really causes people to shed tears.
What do you suggest we stand here, shed tears and call each other names or shall we go to Istanbul?
Let's go in the shed.
It leads around behind the shed where they keep the truck.
We'll take him to the boat shed in the meantime.
Towards the boat shed.
You go around the shed through the trees, a cabin back there.
Could the witness shed any light on that?

News and current affairs

School districts are increasing class sizes as they shed teachers, as well as deferring maintenance projects and curtailing the school-bus service.
It will take time for Asia's leaders to shed the burdens of the past, in some cases especially where relations with the West are concerned.
The Socialists, for their part, had not yet shed their intellectual skin.
Nevertheless, recent polls by WorldPublicOpinion.org shed some indirect light on this question.
America must shed these ideological blinkers and deal realistically with the real Lula, not the bogeyman some Bush advisors have invented.
Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own.
The secessionists hark back to eighteenth-century English brutality and claim that Scotland will be able to keep all of its North Sea oil and shed its share of the UK's debt.
The only country in the region to have managed communism's end without a single drop of blood being shed, Bulgaria is irritated at the risk of being dragged into a foreign war.
Politics is necessary for the simple reason that occupying armies and police cannot force hundreds of millions of Muslims to shed their hostility.
It would be better for both countries to shed some of these marigold garlands of cloying adjectives.
This means, of course, that if protectionism is politically convenient, you need not shed tears over harming the country by surrendering to it, an attitude that many Democrats in the United States find convenient to adopt.
It actually requires much more time and effort to shed data than to keep it.
Arab men and women have shed the sense of humiliation and inferiority that despotism imposed on them - and that fostered desperation, anger, violence, and insularity.
Jobs will continue to be shed.
In a time of official lies, healthy investigative energy should shed light, not just generate heat.
In fairness, it should be acknowledged that it was under Schroeder that Germany shed hesitations to deploy soldiers abroad.
As industries suffering from insufficient demand shed workers, industries benefiting from surplus demand hire them.
The Kazakhs are keen to sell their oil and gas to the West at the very moment that the European Union is anxious to shed its dependence on Russian supplies.
Likewise, governments that attract the production that was shed elsewhere need to have policies in place that enable them to benefit as much as possible from this global shift, thereby furthering their own economic development.
The rest of an unbalanced Chinese economy followed - especially the labor market, which shed more than 20 million jobs in Guangdong Province alone.
The rotating presidency of the EU is about to shed a spotlight on one of these countries.
But the public continues to regard the FN as the ideological heir to Vichy France - a party that has barely shed its collaborationist clothing.
As firms shed workers during the economic downturn, output fell more slowly.
But those historic contexts shed light on Japan's response to events in Iraq and the wider world today.
In this uncertain context, the APEC summit could shed much-needed light on the intentions of Abe and Xi, thereby providing crucial insight into the trajectory of Sino-Japanese relations - and thus the future of East Asia.
The G-8 had morphed by necessity into the G-20, which, whenever it really mattered, would shed its zero: the United States and China would call the shots.
The Fed's economic manuals, including technical models and historical analyses, shed insufficient light on today's economic situation.

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