shed
/ʃɛd/ verbo C1En español: separar, verter, derramar
- To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of. · You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.· When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.
- To allow to flow or fall. · I didn't shed many tears when he left me.· A tarpaulin sheds water.
- To radiate, cast, give off (light). · to shed light on· Can you shed any light on this problem?
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
He/she/it sheds · Pasado shed · Participio pasado shed · Forma en -ing shedding
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It seemed to her a terrible thing that she could not shed a tear for Matthew, whom she had loved so much and who had been so kind to her, Matthew who had walked with her last evening at sunset and was now lying in the dim room below with that awful peace on his brow.
“Amusing, certainly,” replied the young man, “inasmuch as, instead of shedding tears as at the fictitious tale of woe produced at a theatre, you behold in a law-court a case of real and genuine distress—a drama of life.
“I’ll go look after the stock.” Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.
“There is no occasion to move yet, my son,” she replied; “the man who only sends to his friends to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest.” The owner of the field came again a few days later and saw the wheat shedding the grain from excess of ripeness.
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