shred

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 External links 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Translations

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[edit] Etymology

Old English screade, cognate with German Schrot (“‘small shot’”) and Old Norse skrydda (“‘shrivelled skin’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ʃɹɛd/
• Rhymes: -ɛd

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

1. To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.
   • 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. (snowboarding) To ride aggressively.
3. (bodybuilding) To drop fat and water weight before a competition.

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• shredder

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[edit] External links

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

[edit] Noun

shred (plural shreds)

1. A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
2. In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.
3. (McDonald's lingo) Shredded lettuce.

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