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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.

in shreds

• very badly damaged; destroyed or ruined.
"my reputation will be in shreds"

tear someone/something to shreds

• criticize someone or something aggressively.
"a defence counsel would tear his evidence to shreds"



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