shred
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bodybuilding
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Etymology: From Middle English shrede, shred (“fragment, piece, scrap; piece cut off from something; strip of material; ornamental strip hanging from the edge of a garment; thread; band or thread woven in a garment; element, streak; plant (?)”) [and other forms], from Late Old English sċrēad, sċrēade (“piece cut off from something; a paring; a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō (“a piece, shred; a crack; a cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). Doublet of escrow.
Inflected forms:
form: shreds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shreds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shredding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shredded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shredded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: shred
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: shred
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: shredded
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: shred
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: shreddest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: shredded
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: shreddedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: shreds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shreddeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: shredded
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: shred
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: shredded
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: shred
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: shredded
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: shred
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: shredding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shredded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: more shred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
pos: noun
examples: There isn’t a shred of evidence to support his claims.
His gayeſt flooriſhes are but Gaſcoignes Weedes, or Tarletons trickes, or Greenes crankes, or Marlowes bravadoes; his jeſts, but the dregges of common ſcurrilitie, or the ſhreds of the Theater, or the of-ſcouring of new pamflets: […]
They ſaid they vvere an hungry, ſigh'd forth Prouerbes / That Hunger-broke ſtone vvals: that dogges muſt eate / That meate vvas made for mouths. That the gods ſent not / Corne for the Richmen onely: VVith theſe ſhreds / They vented their Complainings, […]
[…] And like a ſon of Belial, vvithout the hire of Jeſabel, charges me of blaſpheming God and the King, as ordinarily he imagines me to drink Sack and ſvveare, meerely becauſe this vvas a ſhred in his common place-Book, […]
He munched a shred of toast, and was off by the omnibus to chambers.
But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
gloss: A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
pos: noun
examples: To leaue him that bare a Monarkes minde, / For a king of clovvts, of very ſhreads.
[…] Gold being grovvn ſomevvhat churliſh by recovering, is made more pliant by throvving in ſhreds of tanned Leather, or any Leather oiled.
Yet the Bible is like a fair Suit of Arras, of vvhich though a Shread may aſſure you of the fineneſs of the Colours, and Richneſs of the ſtuff, yet the Hangings never appear to their true Advantage, but vvhen they are diſplay'd to their full Dimenſions, and ſeen together.
To-day they were to trim the grape-vine, so Kit mounted half-way up a short ladder, and began to snip and hammer away, while the old gentleman, with a great interest in his proceedings, handed up the nails and shreds of cloth as he wanted them.
A wandering minstrel I— / A thing of shreds and patches, / Of ballads, songs and snatches, / And dreamy lullaby!
They have hung a shred of carpet out of an upstairs window— […]
gloss: A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
pos: noun
examples: Three shreds of celery in a glass.
gloss: A piece of gold or silver lace or thread.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: But, vvhen a tvvelvemonth paſs'd avvay, / Jack found his goddeſs made of clay; / Found half the charms that deck'd her face, / Aroſe from povvder, ſhreds, or lace; […]
gloss: A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: And when he neared Brandon he pulled up, sorted his pots, kept the whole ones, threw the shreds at the rabbits, and walked on into Brandon solemnly, leading the mare, and crying "Pots!"
gloss: A tailor.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Mer[curie]. Is it ſo, ſir, you impudent Poultroun? you ſlaue, you liſt, you ſhreds, you.— […] Ana[ides]. S'foot, vve muſt vſe our taylors thus.
As if thou ere vver't angry / But vvith thy Taylor, and yet that poore ſhred / Can bring more to the making vp of a man, / Then can be hop'd from thee: […]
gloss: To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Take a little grated Bread, ſome Beef-ſuet, yolks of hard Eggs, three Anchovies, a bit of an Onion, Salt and Pepper, Tyme and VVinter-ſavory, tvvelve Oyſters, ſome Nutmeg grated; mix all theſe together, and ſhred them very fine, and vvork them up vvith ravv Eggs like a paſte, and ſtuff your Mutton under the Skin in the thickeſt place, or vvhere you pleaſe, and roaſt it; […]
gloss: To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
pos: verb
tags: specifically
transitive
examples: But then there was the awkward incident of the tearing of the writs. Nigel, to whom a lie was an impossibility, had to admit that with his own hands he had shredded those august documents.
gloss: To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
pos: verb
tags: specifically
transitive
gloss: To separate (something) into small portions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hunger was shred into atomies in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
gloss: To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
slang
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast and in a way that requires technical skill.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
slang
transitive
gloss: To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
slang
transitive
gloss: To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
slang
transitive
gloss: To cut or sever (something) into two parts.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Then ſince (quoth ſhe) the terme of each mans life / For nought may leſſened nor enlarged bee, / Graunt this, that vvhen ye ſhred vvith fatall knife / His line, vvhich is the eldeſt of the three, / VVhich of them the ſhorteſt, as I ſee, / Eftſoones his life may paſſe into the next; […]
gloss: To chop or cut (something) into pieces.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Another vvafts his Blade about his head, / And ſhevvs them hovv their hãſtrings [hamstrings] he vvil ſhread.
Seeſt thou this, bold bright blade? / This Sword ſhall ſhred thee as ſmall unto the Grave, / As minc'd meat for a Pie.
Morality ſhreddeth ſinne as a garden knot; but Religion ſtubbeth it up by the roots.
How? speak more at length. Thou snippest off news as a housewife shreddeth leeks.
gloss: To cut, lop, or strip (branches, etc.) off; also, to cut (a piece) from something.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: To call in queſtion the iuriſdiction of Archbiſhops, they affirme that no man is to take vpon him an office but hee that is called, as vvas Aaron: but they are not avvare, that the ſame poſition ſhreddeth avvay the vvilde autoritie of doctors, elders, conſiſtorie, conferences, & their abſurd and irregular Synodes, vvhich (as enemies in an aſſault enter the breach) vvould ſteale into the Church through the ruines thereof.
You ly, you ly, Gabriell: I know what you are about to ſaye, but He ſhred you off three leaves at one blowe.
[A]ll vſurie in it ovvne nature is biting, becauſe it biteth or ſhreddeth avvay ſome of the borrovvers ſubſtance.
[C]rooked Trees may be made ſtreight by ſhredding up of the Side-branches till you come above the Crook, vvhere they are young.
They durst not, for their island, shred / One golden ringlet from her head.
Every yard of this ground, excepting the path which we now occupy, is rendered dangerous, and well nigh impracticable, by snares and traps, armed with scythe-blades, which shred off the unwary passenger's limb as sheerly as a hedge-bill lops a hawthorn-sprig— […]
[S]he fell to feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and doling alms to the Fakírs saying, "This be the reward of him who mortifieth the daughters of folk and devoureth their substance and shreddeth off their nostrils." She also sent to the women he had married and divorced, and gave them of his good the equivalent of their dowers and a solatium for losing their noses.
gloss: To prune or trim (a tree, a vineyard, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: As for Timber-trees, it is beſt not to head them at all, but to ſhred them up to one ſingle Bough, if the Soil be good that you plant them in; […]
gloss: To become separated into small portions.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We couldn't see over the wall of smoke, and we couldn't see through it. But at last it began to shred away lazily, and by the end of another quarter-hour the land was clear and our curiosity was enabled to satisfy itself. No living creature was in sight!
What is this that rises before me? Mist, mist, rolling mist with a square black tower above it. See it shreds out, it thins, it rises, and there lies a castle in a green plain, with the sea beneath it, and a great church within a bow-shot.
gloss: To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
gloss: Synonym of shredded (“cut or torn into narrow strips or small pieces”).
pos: adj
examples: The ſtinging alſo of ſhred Horſ-hair, which in meriment is often ſtrew'd between the ſheets of a Bed, ſeems to proceed from the ſame cauſe.
Related words: screed
Derived words: shreddies
shreddy
shredless
shredlet
shredlike
shred pie
tear to shreds
nerve-shredding
nonshredding
shreddable
shredded
shredder
shredding
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: парцалче
roman: parcalče
lang: Catalan
word: tirella
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 碎布條 /碎布条
roman: suìbùtiáo
lang: Czech
word: útržek
lang: Czech
word: cár
lang: Dutch
word: flard
lang: Finnish
word: kaistale
lang: Finnish
word: suikale
lang: French
word: lambeau
lang: Galician
word: lambiza
lang: Galician
word: lambizo
lang: German
word: Lumpen
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σπάραγμα
roman: spáragma
lang: Hebrew
word: גֶּזֶר
roman: gézer
lang: Latin
word: segmen
lang: Māori
word: ngaku
lang: Persian
word: کراد
roman: korâd
lang: Polish
word: strzęp
lang: Russian
word: клочо́к
roman: kločók
lang: Russian
word: лоску́т
roman: loskút
lang: Spanish
word: triza
lang: Spanish
word: tira
lang: Spanish
word: brizna
lang: Spanish
word: brinza
lang: Swedish
word: remsa