shed

For the verb: "to shed"

Simple Past:	shed
Past Participle:	shed

Multiple Entries:
  shed    she'd  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shed1

▶noun a simple roofed structure, typically of wood and used for storage or to shelter animals.

■ a larger structure, typically with one or more sides open, for storing vehicles or machinery.

■ Austral./NZ a building for shearing sheep or milking cattle.

▶verb (sheds, shedding, shedded) park (a vehicle) in a depot.

– origin C15: appar. a var. of shade.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shed2

▶verb (sheds, shedding; past and past part. shed)

• 1 (of a plant) allow (leaves or fruit) to fall to the ground.

  ■ (of a reptile, insect, etc.) allow (its skin, shell, etc.) to come off, to be replaced by another growing underneath.

  ■ lose (hair) as a result of moulting, disease, or age.

• 2 discard (something).

  ■ take off (clothes).

• 3 cast or give off (light).

• 4 Brit. accidentally drop or spill.

• 5 resist the absorption of.

• 6 eliminate part of (an electrical power load) by disconnecting circuits.

– phrases
shed tears cry.

– origin OE sc(e)ādan ‘separate out (one selected group), divide’, also ‘scatter’, of Gmc origin; cf. sheath.

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she'd/ʃiːd/

▶contraction she had; she would.