Shred

/ʃɹɛd/

Synonyms for "shred" (221 found)

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Closest matches (45)

abradeadhesive tapeatom atomize band bandage batten beat belt bit bray brecciate buttcellophane tapechip chunk clip clippingcloth tapecollop

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comminute contriturate crumb crumble crush cut cutting damn defoliate demolish denude destroy disintegrate dismemberdispose ofdollop dramdraw and quarter

Adjective(1 words)

active tearing

Noun(5 words)

bitcard tearingchads cut destroy

Verb(1 words)

destroy documents

Strong matches (66)

drop end fascia filament fillet flay flour fragment frayfriction tapegin girdle gob gobbet grain granulate granulize grate grindgrind to powder

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hint hunk iota jot lacerate lath levigate ligula ligule list lota lump maim mangle mashmasking tapemill modicum moiety morceau morsel mutilatemystik tapenip ounce paring particle patch peel pestlepick to piecespiece plankplastic tapepound

Noun(7 words)

erasefabric tearinggrates grating iota juliennemost continuous tearing

Verb(2 words)

fragmentize grated

Adverb(1 words)

more continuous tearing

Determiner(1 words)

most reflex tearing

Related words (110)

powderpull apartpulverize rag rasher rayreduce to powderremnant rend ribband ribbon scintilla scoopscotch tapescrap scrunch scruple shard shave shaving

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shiver skin slat slice slip sliver smash smidgen smithereen snack snatch snick snip snippet speck spill spin spline splinter squash stitch strake strap strip strop stump suggestion syllable taenia tagtake aparttapetape measuretapeline tattertear aparttear to piecestear to tatterstear upthrow awayticker tapetittle trace trash triturate whit whoop

Noun(32 words)

ragrend slowlyrending riprip apartripped apartripping ripsrips apartruin scintilla shreddingshredding machinesliver smidge smidgen smidgeon smidgin strip tag

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tag endtatter tattering tatters tear tearingtearing of papertearing uptears tittle trace whit

Adjective(3 words)

reflexive tearingsteady tearingtattered

Verb(8 words)

rend rendsrip uprippedripping aparttear uptore torn

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

17 entries

amount bust cut delete destroy divide fragment piecepiece of clothpiece of materialportion quantity rupturesmall indefinite amountsmall indefinite quantitysnap

Showing 16 of 17 words.

More specific

9 entries

fabric shredpaper shredscant amountshred documentsshred evidenceshredded documentsshredded papertiny amounttrace amount

Collocations

12 entries

fabric shredfaint shredpaper shredshred confidential filesshred documentsshred evidenceshred lettuceshred of evidenceshred old recordsshred papershredded paperwood shred

Inflections

3 entries

shredded shredding shreds

Derivations

5 entries

shreddable shredded shredder shredding shreds

Translations

25 translations across 18 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

σπάραγμα noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Bulgarian

1 entries

парцалче noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Catalan

1 entries

tirella noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

碎布條 /碎布条 noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Czech

2 entries

cár noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
útržek noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Dutch

1 entries

flard noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Finnish

2 entries

kaistale noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
suikale noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

French

1 entries

lambeau noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Galician

2 entries

lambiza noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
lambizo noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

German

1 entries

Lumpen noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Hebrew

1 entries

גֶּזֶר noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Latin

1 entries

segmen noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Māori

1 entries

ngaku noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Persian

1 entries

کراد noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Polish

1 entries

strzęp noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Russian

2 entries

клочо́к noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
лоску́т noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Spanish

4 entries

brinza noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
brizna noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
tira noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
triza noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Swedish

1 entries

remsa noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)

Sample sentences

47 total sentences available.

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Let's shred your wings into small pieces and throw them away.

Source: tatoeba (416843)

Tom and Mary were on the verge of diving, off the left edge of the sentence, in the infinite corpus, when they spotted underneath a shoal of hungry contributors, teeth out, ready to jump on them and shred their mistakes down to the last one.

Source: tatoeba (1077668)

The last shred of hope had vanished from her heart.

Source: tatoeba (2788861)

There wasn't a single shred of evidence.

Source: tatoeba (4493823)

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