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Another word for shuck

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Verb

  1. To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective, for example.

    See also:

    keep

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Another word for shuck

Noun
  1. See also:

    shell

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The two women adjourned to the front porch to cut green beans and shuck corn.

  • "I've got to go wash my hands and shuck this coat," she said.

  • In Cambridgeshire and on the Norfolk coast it is known as Shuck or Shock.

  • To spend half an hour in conversation with him is something akin to trying to shuck an oyster.

  • shuck off moral responsibility.

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