Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1noun
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.
- 2past tense & past participle
of Shed
- 3transitive verb
To separate; to divide.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive 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.
- 6transitive verb
To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
- 7transitive verb
To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- 8transitive verb
To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- 9intransitive verb
To fall in drops; to pour.
- 10intransitive verb
To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
- 11noun
A parting; a separation; a division.
- 12noun
The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
- 13noun
That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
- 14noun
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.
- 15noun
an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
- 16verb
cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
"our dog sheds every Spring"
- 17verb
get rid of
"he shed his image as a pushy boss"
"shed your clothes"
- 18verb
cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
"spill the beans all over the table"
- 19verb
pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
"shed tears"
"spill blood"
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- 20adjective
shed at an early stage of development
"most amphibians have caducous gills"
"the caducous calyx of a poppy"
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