0 a small building, usually made of wood, used for storing things: --
1 (often used in newspapers) to get rid of something you do not need or want: --
People shed the virus in respiratory droplets and aerosols.
Those who have contracted the new coronavirus shed the virus most heavily in the first few days of the illness.
So much blood has been shed (= so many people have been badly hurt or killed) in this war.
I'm going on a diet to see if I can shed (= become thinner by losing) a few pounds.
Psychotherapy helped him to shed some of his insecurity/inhibitions.
2 short form of she had: --
4 to get rid of something: --
5 to lose hair, leaves, or skin, or to cause hair, skin, or leaves to drop: --
Research is shedding light on the mechanisms involved in selecting and establishing preferentially active neural patterns.
Research on one aspect of language use - how the turns of speakers and priorities of topic are determined sheds light on conversational politics.
Each season, the rectal samples were collected from different calves at different cattle sheds in a farm.
Shared intelligence can be very valuable if it sheds light on important foreign policy problems.
The treatment of the death rate of shedding snails is more complicated.
The snails were examined for emerging cercariae from day 28 following exposure and checked for cercarial shedding until death.
A peak in the high intensity category and shedding in the medium and low intensity category were also observed during this period.
Only low intensity shedding by 13.1% of the snails was observed for the 1500- 1700 h period and no shedding was observed thereafter.
