shred
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[edit] Etymology
Old English screade, cognate with German Schrot (“‘small shot’”) and Old Norse skrydda (“‘shrivelled skin’”).
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to shred (third-person singular simple present shreds, present participle shredding, simple past and past participle shredded)
- 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, ...
- 1902, William Carew Hazlitt, Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine:
- (snowboarding) To ride aggressively.
- (bodybuilding) To drop fat and water weight before a competition.
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to cut or tear into narrow pieces or strips
snowboarding: to ride aggressively
to drop fat and water weight before a competition
[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
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shred (plural shreds)
- A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
- In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.
- (McDonald's lingo) Shredded lettuce.
[edit] Translations
fragment; piece; particle
McDonald's lingo: shredded lettuce
