shred
noun
[ ʃrɛd ]
• a strip of material, such as paper, cloth, or food, that has been torn, cut, or scraped from something larger.
• "her dress was torn to shreds"
Similar:
tatter,
scrap,
strip,
ribbon,
rag,
snippet,
snip,
remnant,
fragment,
sliver,
splinter,
chip,
bit,
tiny bit,
piece,
tiny piece,
wisp,
shred
verb
• tear or cut into shreds.
Similar:
chop finely,
cut up,
tear up,
rip up,
grate,
rub into pieces,
mince,
mangle,
chew,
macerate,
grind,
granulate,
pulverize,
• play a very fast, intricate style of rock lead guitar.
• "that girl can shred like Eddie Van Halen"
Origin:
late Old English scrēad ‘piece cut off’, scrēadian ‘trim, prune’, of West Germanic origin; related to shroud.