shred


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shred/ʃred/
noun
  • 1 a strip of material that has been torn, cut, or scraped from something larger.
  • 2 a very small amount.
verb (shreds, shredding, shredded) tear or cut into shreds.
– origin OE scrēad ‘piece cut off’, scrēadian ‘trim, prune’, of W. Gmc origin; rel. to shroud.
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