shedding

• Rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ

shedding

1. present participle and gerund of shed

shedding (plural sheddings)

1. The act of shedding, separating, or casting off.

   the sheddings of blood under the Old Testament

2. That which is shed, or cast off.
   • a. 1850, William Wordsworth, Yew-Trees:

     sheddings from the pining

• “shedding”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.