shed

shed is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
2. past tense & past participle. of Shed
3. transitive verb. To separate; to divide.
4. transitive verb. To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
5. transitive verb. To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.
6. transitive verb. To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
7. transitive verb. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
8. transitive verb. To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
9. intransitive verb. To fall in drops; to pour.
10. intransitive verb. To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
11. noun. A parting; a separation; a division.
12. noun. The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
13. noun. That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
14. noun. The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.
15. noun. an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
16. verb. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

    "our dog sheds every Spring"

    Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, slough

17. verb. get rid of

    "he shed his image as a pushy boss"

    "shed your clothes"

    Synonyms: cast, drop, throw

18. verb. cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over

    "spill the beans all over the table"

    Synonyms: disgorge, spill

19. verb. pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities

    "shed tears"

    "spill blood"

    Synonyms: spill

20. adjective. shed at an early stage of development

    "most amphibians have caducous gills"

    "the caducous calyx of a poppy"

    Synonyms: caducous

Synonyms

exuviate, molt, moult, slough, cast, drop, throw, disgorge, spill, caducous

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shed:

edhs

Common word forms

sheds, sheder, shedded, shedder, shedable, shedding

Words from these letters

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