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shred
[ shred ]
noun
- a piece cut or torn off, especially in a narrow strip.
- a bit; scrap:
We haven't got a shred of evidence.
verb (used with object)
- to cut or tear into small pieces, especially small strips; reduce to shreds:
I shred my credit card statement every month.
verb (used without object)
- to be cut up, torn, etc.:
The blouse had shredded in the wash.
- Slang. to snowboard, skateboard, surf, or ski in a highly skilled or showily spectacular manner:
I bought a new action camera that I can mount to my helmet—stay tuned for rad videos of me shredding when I hit the slopes next weekend.
- Slang. to play guitar very quickly with specific picking techniques, as during an electric guitar solo:
Fans in the mosh pit go wild when Eddie shreds on lead guitar.
shred
/ ʃrɛd /
noun
- a long narrow strip or fragment torn or cut off
- a very small piece or amount; scrap
verb
- tr to tear or cut into shreds
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Derived Forms
- ˈshredder, noun
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Other Words From
- shred·less adjective
- shred·like adjective
- un·shred·ded adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shred1
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Example Sentences
“I was so paranoid that I would shred the receipts,” she said.
For 381 days, no black person in Montgomery with a shred of self-esteem rode the bus.
But is it really worth eliminating that final shred of danger?
Online diagnoses are delivered hyperbolically and without a shred of bedside manner.
Chris McDaniel is now saying the “election was stolen” without providing a shred of evidence.
When this last shred of hope was gone, the Brigadier reluctantly gave the order to retreat.
She was ill, though, when they telegraphed for me; her life for three days and nights hanging on a shred.
Around us rose the broken, straggling walls, bare and bleak, without a shred of ivy or wall-flower to hide their grim nakedness.
The moon changed and still the same hot dry sky, with only now and then a shred of cloud floating lazily across the blue.
Every shred of the old pretence of the pertinacities and annoyances of strangers had fallen from her.
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