Shred

//ʃɹɛd//

Synonyms for "shred" (254 found)

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Closest matches (51)

Strong matches (76)

Related words (127)

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Translations

91 translations across 28 languages.

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Ancient Greek

2 entries
  • σπάραγμα noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • σπαράσσω verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • късче noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • парцалче noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • парче noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • накъсвам verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Catalan

4 entries
  • fragment noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • tirella noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • tros noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • tallar verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 一丁點 /一丁点 noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • 些許 /些许 noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • 碎布條 /碎布条 noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • 切碎 verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Czech

4 entries
  • cár noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • kus noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • útržek noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • trhat verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Dutch

3 entries
  • flard noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • verscheuren verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)
  • versnipperen verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Finnish

4 entries
  • hitunen noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • kaistale noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • kappale noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • palanen noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)

French

4 entries
  • lambeau noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • couper verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)
  • dilacérer verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)
  • déchiqueter verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Galician

3 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)
  • trocear verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

German

4 entries
  • Fitzel noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • Fitzelchen noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • Lumpen noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • Schnipsel noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)

Greek

1 entries
  • κομματιάζω verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Hebrew

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

Irish

1 entries
  • ruainne noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)

Italian

2 entries
  • rimasuglio noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • tagliuzzare verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Latin

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

Malay

1 entries
  • goreng verb (to play (a musical instrument or a piece of music) very fast)

Māori

2 entries
  • ngaku noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • toretore verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • strimle verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • strimle verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Occitan

2 entries
  • abocinar verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)
  • trissar verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Old English

1 entries
  • sċrēadian verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Persian

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

Polish

4 entries
  • kawałek noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • strzęp noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • drzeć verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)
  • podrzeć verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • trinchar verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Russian

4 entries
  • клочо́к noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • кусо́к noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • лоску́т noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • измельча́ть verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

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

4 entries
  • remsa noun (a long, narrow piece cut or torn off — see also strip)
  • spår noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • tillstymmelse noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)
  • uns noun (fragment of something; very small amount — see also particle, piece)

Walloon

1 entries
  • kihatchî verb (to cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips)

Sample sentences

47 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.