"shed skin" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-shed skin.wav Forms: sheds skin [present, singular, third-person], shedding skin [participle, present], shed skin [participle, past], shed skin [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|shed<,,shed> skin}} shed skin (third-person singular simple present sheds skin, present participle shedding skin, simple past and past participle shed skin)
  1. (transitive) To cast off natural covering; to remove dead skin cells. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-shed_skin-en-verb-88U9zq9B Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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        "To cast off natural covering; to remove dead skin cells."
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        "(transitive) To cast off natural covering; to remove dead skin cells."
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