1. Shredder Chess
2. Shred It Near Me
3. Shredder
4. Shred Paper

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• (UK,US)IPA^(key): /ʃɹɛd/

• Audio (AU)

• Rhymes: -ɛd

Shred definition, a piece cut or torn off, especially in a narrow strip. SHREDZ® helps people find a reason to fight for their bodybuilding and weight loss goals, and gives them the supplements they need to reach them.

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Englishshrede, shred, from Old Englishsċrēad, sċrēade, from Proto-Germanic*skraudō(“a cut, shred”). Doublet of escrow.

Noun[edit]

shred (pluralshreds)

1. A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
   • 1631, [Francis Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], 3rd edition, London: […]VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…], :
2. In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.

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

   • c.1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […]Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, , [Act 3, scene 4]:

Synonyms[edit]

• See also Thesaurus:modicum.

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Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle Englishshreden, from Old Englishsċrēadian, from Proto-West Germanic*skraudōn, related to Proto-West Germanic*skraudan(“to cut up, shred”).

Verb[edit]

shred (third-person singular simple presentshreds, present participleshredding, simple pastshredded, past participleshreddedorshred)

Shredder Chess

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. To reduce by a large percentage.
   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, never wanted his customers to worry about shipping – about how much it cost, or about how long it would take – and he relentlessly shredded delivery times to make shipping incidental to the purchasing experience.

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

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Shred It Near Me

Shredder

References[edit]

Shred Paper

Further reading[edit]

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

Anagrams[edit]

• herds, sherd