shred

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Etymology

Old English screade (from which also screed), cognate with German Schrot (“small shot”) and Old Norse skrydda (“shrivelled skin”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ʃɹɛd/
• Rhymes: -ɛd

Noun

shred (plural shreds)

1. A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
2. In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.

   There isn't a shred of evidence to support his claims.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:modicum.

Related terms

• screed

Translations

strip

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碎布條 (cmn), 碎布条 (cmn) (suìbùtiáo)

• Czech: útržek (cs), cár (cs)
• Finnish: suikale (fi), kaistale (fi)

• French: lambeau (fr) m
• Polish: strzęp (pl) m
• Russian: лоскут (ru) (loskút) m, клочок (ru) (kločók) m

fragment; piece; particle

• Czech: kus (cs)
• Finnish: palanen (fi), kappale (fi)

• Polish: kawałek (pl) m
• Russian: кусок (ru) (kusók) m

Verb

shred (third-person singular simple present shreds, present participle shredding, simple past shredded, past participle shredded or shred)

1. To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

   • 1902, William Carew Hazlitt, Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine:

     Take a little grated bread, some beef-suet, yolks of hard eggs, three anchovies, a bit of an onion, salt and pepper, thyme and winter-savoury, twelve oysters, some nutmeg grated; mix all these together, and shred them very fine, and work them up with raw eggs like a paste, ...

2. (obsolete, transitive) To lop; to prune; to trim.
3. (snowboarding) To ride aggressively.
4. (bodybuilding) To drop fat and water weight before a competition.
5. (music) To play very fast (especially guitar solos in rock and metal genres).

Derived terms

• shredder

Translations

to cut or tear into narrow pieces or strips

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: trocejar, tallar, triturar, trinxar
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 切碎 (cmn) (qiēsuì)

• Czech: trhat (cs)
• Dutch: verscheuren (nl), versnipperen (nl)
• Finnish: repiä (fi), silputa (fi), suikaloida (fi)
• French: déchiqueter (fr), lacérer (fr), dilacérer (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can

• German: zerkleinern (de), zerfetzen (de)
• Greek: κομματιάζω (el) (kommatiázo)
• Polish: drzeć, podrzeć
• Portuguese: trinchar (pt)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: кромсать (ru) (kromsátʹ), измельчать (ru) (izmelʹčátʹ)
• Spanish: trocear (es)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

snowboarding: to ride aggressively

to drop fat and water weight before a competition

• French: fondre (fr)

External links

• shred in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• shred in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• herds, sherd