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peeling
The act of removing the outer surface in strips.
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  1. The act of removing the outer surface in strips.
  2. Strips of an outer rind or surface that has been removed.
  3. A piece or strip, as of skin or vegetable rind, that has been peeled off.
molting
A molt; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc.
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  1. A molt; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc.
dropping
That which drops or falls in drops
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  1. That which drops or falls in drops
  2. The act of a person or thing that drops
  3. The act of something that drops or falls.
Find another word for shedding. In this page you can discover 7 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for shedding, like: peeling, molting, casting-off, losing hair, dropping, exuviating and exfoliating.

Sentence Examples

  • The periodical shedding is also necessary in order to allow of this increase in size.

  • How happy I am! cried Natasha, shedding tears of joy and excitement and embracing her mother.

  • It was an exciting chase of king by king, in which each covered the ground by incredible exertions, shedding their slower-going followers as they went, past Rhagae (Rai) and the Caspian gates, till early one morning Alexander came in sight of the broken train which still clung to the fallen king.

  • Complaint was made to Vitellius, then legate of Syria, and Pilate was sent to Rome to answer for his shedding of innocent blood.

  • And Napoleon, shedding tears before his Old Guards, renounced the throne and went into exile.

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