Definition of shred in English:

shred

nounPlural shreds ʃrɛdʃrɛd

usually shreds

1A strip of material, such as paper, cloth, or food, that has been torn, cut, or scraped from something larger.
（由纸、布、食物等撕成、剪成或刮成的）细条；碎片
her dress was torn to shreds
她漂亮的裙子被撕成了碎条。
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet the real battle for England is hoping its cricket revival is not going to be torn to shreds in this game by a rampant Aussie team who simply refuse to show any mercy to the old enemy.
- I assume your values are against seeing people torn to shreds by car bombs.
- In death, Dorris's reputation was torn to shreds.
- A hare is be given a short head start to blaze a trail, marking his devious way with shreds of paper, soon to be pursued by a shouting pack of harriers.
- The hunter is doomed to being transformed by the vain goddess of hunting into a stag, to be pursued and torn to shreds by his own hounds.
- We want the British constitution torn to shreds and reformulated in the interests of working people.
- His nerves could easily have been torn to shreds following a series of false starts which led to the Greek being disqualified.
- This paper is not exhaustive and has only covered some of the areas in which the Constitution has been violated and its ideology torn to shreds.
- Tear one of the shreds of licorice off the big licorice stick.
- The feathers came from Kathy's parka, torn to shreds.
- Most cities had been leveled, economies were shattered, resources completely depleted, and societies torn to shreds.
- By the sides of the road, triangular signs warned us presence of wind socks, but those that we saw had been torn to shreds by the Atlantic gale, and so posed no risk to anyone.
- The form-book has certainly been torn to shreds in the play-off stages of this fascinating intermediate championship.
- At the film's end, Harry is left alone in his destroyed apartment, torn to shreds in a vain search for a planted microphone.
- The waves fling themselves at my feet, water torn to shreds - white ribbons thrown across the rocks.
- Her heart ached as the coldness gripped her and tore the dress to pieces, only shreds of innocent cloth lingering between her forsaken fingers.
- Bits of dog harness torn to shreds were scattered about.
- They found his robes all torn to shreds in one of the upper levels.
- The federal Liberals have been more responsible for shredding the social safety net than any other government.
- What kind of sport is it that accepts one animal being torn to shreds by another?
- The very fabric of modern society rent asunder, all we hold dear torn to shreds and flushed down the lavatory.
- Its wooing of such a company, in the eyes of many, shredded public confidence in the agency.
- The hard copies have often been torn to shreds, but if a poem made it to my web site it has usually remained.
- The first half saw the Waterford defence torn to shreds with just Karl O'Keeffe and Paul Houlihan keeping the home side in the game at times.
- Rick curled his lip in disgust, slumped in a corner a body, torn to shreds by shrapnel and bullet wounds.
- The policeman noted that there were multiple pieces of the curtains torn to shreds.
- The form book was torn to shreds, however, at Walsh Park on Saturday as the Carrickbeg men totally outplayed a ragged Dunhill side to clinch their semi-final place.
- ‘They weren't eaten, there was no sign of a hungry animal here, they were just torn to shreds by dogs looking for fun,’ says James.
- At one point, the flags were literally torn to shreds.
Synonyms
tatter, scrap, strip, ribbon, rag, snippet, snip, remnant, fragment, sliver, splinter, chip, bit, tiny bit, piece, tiny piece, wisp
1. 1.1often with negative A very small amount.
  极少量，些许
  we have not a shred of evidence to go on
  我们一点证据也没有。
  Example sentencesExamples
  To date, however, there is not a shred of credible evidence to support the belief that ETs have already visited us.
  Idi's out of a coma, possibly blind, possibly brain-damaged, certainly in intense discomfort from renal failure, and without a shred of human dignity.
  ‘Even in England, where Lisa was born, there has been hardly a shred of coverage about her murder,’ she said.
  I like to say that I dumped him of course, because that way I at least get to keep a shred of dignity.
  Mortified by the embarrassment of this mistaken identity, I log off and retire to bed early to consider whether there's any possible way to turn this ridiculous situation around with a shred of dignity.
  There is hardly a shred of human feeling or emotion in anything he does or believes in (aside from the numerous internal political battles he has engaged in to get to where he is today).
  The others would have joined him if they didn't still retain a shred of dignity, but all the same, they were immensely relieved to be back on solid ground, some more than others.
  In order to retain a shred of dignity, therefore, you should do as little work as possible while pretending to work.
  If they could just say, ‘We made a heck of a mistake, we caused untold misery,’ they could at least come away with a shred of dignity, but they will never do that.
  The shows are filled with PhD's and experts claiming this and that with hardly a shred of real truth brought to the fore.
  That there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that the cyclist is taking, or has taken, drugs does not seem to count.
  The courage to go out in public with at least a shred of dignity.
  This feat did not cost $4,000, and it left us with a shred of dignity.
  They lay stark naked, without a shred of dignity or decency in death.
  I tipped my head back and straightened my shoulders, trying to maintain a shred of dignity, but my attempts were futile.
  There's still a shred of dignity to be salvaged there, I think.
  If that Vallee fellow had a shred of dignity, he'd discard his ukulele and take up the foghorn.
  If it's a ‘rivalry’ match-up, there's the chance he may halt it in a tie and leave 32,000 fans with a shred of dignity.
  The drubbing is so complete that any filmmaker with even a shred of dignity would never pick up a camera without mounting a serious counter rebuttal.
  But not a shred of evidence has ever been produced to suggest, for example, that our intelligence service is not under the control of the government.
  Synonyms
  scrap, bit, tiny amount, speck, iota, particle, ounce, whit, jot, atom, molecule, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum
  Irish stim
  informal smidgen, smidge

verbshreds, shredding, shredded ʃrɛdʃrɛd

1with object Tear or cut into shreds.
撕成（或切成）碎片
Example sentencesExamples
- The garden shredder also aids in shredding debris from punning your hedges.
- I looked closer and it ended up being that half the fan belt had shredded itself and torn off.
- How they all seem so cool and brave, but each of them is nervously shredding the labels on their beer.
- You may want to consider shredding the leaves and use it as winter mulch.
- The cabbage was shredded and packed in layers with salt, juniper and barberries, pepper, and spices.
- Anyhow, I ducked out earlier to plant the new arrivals before the cats shredded them in their packaging.
- The tender inside leaves can be shredded finely for tasty salads and braised red cabbage is fantastic.
- When I met the other guys for the first time I nervously shredded two beer coasters.
- I run my tongue over it gently, shredding it before grinding it between my well-developed teeth.
- The skin of the oranges is peeled and the peels are shredded into small pieces.
- They will be taken to a waste site in Bury where they will be shredded and prepared as compost for farmland across Lancashire.
- Timber would be shredded to produce wood chips for the production of mulch, chipboard or compost.
- All of the recycled trees will be shredded and turned into mulch, which will be used to fertilise woodlands in the region.
- It will then be shredded and spread across the borough's parks to suppress weeds and put nutrients back into the soil.
- In a small bowl mix the juice of the lime with the fish sauce, sugar and the very finely shredded lime leaves.
- They are shredded and used again to surface playgrounds and horse training tracks.
- After delivery to the nursery it is shredded, and then stacked in long piles in an adjacent glasshouse.
- Corsham Town Council is opposing a landowner who wants to use his industrial land for shredding motor tyres.
- I poked it gently with the knife, even though I could see that it had been shredded, it had given its life for the family.
- You place them into a box and no sooner is your back turned than they've shredded the box and disappeared.
Synonyms
chop finely, cut up, tear up, rip up, grate, rub into pieces, mince, mangle, chew, macerate, grind, granulate, pulverize
1. 1.1 Reduce documents to unreadable strips by feeding them into a shredder.
  executives have shredded key documents
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fortunately, most firms now make a habit of shredding documents they no longer need.
  Shred unwanted paperwork such as bank statements, credit card receipts, council tax and utility bills before throwing them away.
  We receive a certificate to show the date that the documents were shredded.
  Statements and related receipts being discarded after the retention period should be shredded or otherwise destroyed.
  They took my identification papers and started to shred them.
  He has also raised questions over whether e-mails were deleted or documents shredded.
  Also, do not throw or shred non-confidential documents that have been read.
  A recent report has found that two thirds of us now regularly shred or destroy personal documents, and 12% take extra care when using the internet.
  Shred all important papers especially anything with names or banking information on it.
  Deleting e-mail is like shredding documents - it destroys evidence forever.
2usually as noun shreddingno object Play a very fast, intricate style of rock lead guitar.
we want to hear everything from country and western to blisteringly fast guitar shredding
Example sentencesExamples
- Several overlapping vocals are thrown over a punky guitar that shreds quickly over repeated cymbal crashes in the background.
- John Bonham rips apart the drums, Robert Plant sings his patented sexual style of the blues, Jimmy Page shreds on that double guitar and John Paul Jones keeps it all together with a rock-solid bass line.
- The rest blends together into an indistinct mass of guitar and vocal shredding.
- I was impressed at how you can revive the 80's guitar shredding days without altering a thing.
- Unfortunately, the eviscerated shredding he applies in "Hallelujah!" engages initially for its novelty, but grows tiresome over repeated listenings.
- Tony was in a band called The Ninth Plague and basically shreds on the guitar.
- Screaming and shredding are cathartic, yes, but nothing says sensitive like an acoustic guitar.
- Dime was an incredible musician and person who influenced thousands of guitarists and pushed guitar shredding to a higher degree for many years.
- Shredding his way through gems such as "Three Days," " Been Caught Stealing "and current single" Just Because, " he showed why he is considered to be one of the top guitarists in the rock genre.
- She won a few hearts from the male fans when she shredded out some righteous guitar solos.

Phrases

in shreds

Very badly damaged; destroyed or ruined.
my reputation will be in shreds
〈喻〉我将身败名裂。
Example sentencesExamples
- With the French president's ambitious plans for a cohesive, more centralised European Union in shreds, Ireland can take a bow.
- All over England, removal vans are probably circling, followed by weeping homeless persons, their hopes in shreds.
- I left the department store with my budget intact, but my Christmas spirit in shreds.
- Smoked duck breast from Ilan County is cut in shreds.
- The once effective Unemployment Insurance programme is in shreds.
- In a searing attack, Conservative leader said the Prime Minister's credibility lay in shreds.
- Political posters were torn in shreds, property damaged.
- A French cabinet minister once branded him a " personality in shreds ".
- Poor conditions cause injuries, as do the terrible shoes they wear until they are in shreds.
- In Bulawayo, police last week discovered several thousand Z $500 notes, mysteriously lying in shreds on a rubbish tip.

tear someone/something to shreds

informal Criticize someone or something aggressively.
a defence counsel would tear his evidence to shreds
Example sentencesExamples
- For Kierkegaard, the god torn to pieces is Christ, a transcendent God who has come down into the world.
- How do you get to the point where you can create something without wanting to tear it to pieces five seconds later?
- There is almost nobody in this town who is not tearing him to pieces, said a congressional aide.
- The next quarter Cupido came on and went absolutely ga-ga and tore the opposition to pieces.
- I suspect that every Opposition MP would give his or her eye teeth at the moment to listen in on a Labour Party caucus that is tearing itself to pieces.
- In all the years I have attended, I have never seen a lecturer torn to pieces like that.
- In this country we tend to either over praise someone, before knocking them down, or we just tear them to pieces straight away.
- There's a moment where everyone is just deconstructing the song, tearing it to pieces, which was the point of what we were doing this time.
- All because of a bold and sporty declaration by Sobers for which he was torn to pieces by the press.
- The pair are drawn into China's struggle, as nationalists, communists and warlords tear each other to pieces and Japan lurks in the shadows, waiting to pounce.

Origin

Late Old English scrēad 'piece cut off', scrēadian 'trim, prune', of West Germanic origin; related to shroud.

shroud from Old English:
Late Old English scrūd meant ‘garment, clothing’ and is from a Germanic source from a base meaning ‘cut’; shred (Old English) is related. An early sense of to shroud in Middle English was ‘cover so as to protect’. Use for the sheet in which a corpse is laid out, dates from the late 16th century.

Rhymes

abed, ahead, bed, behead, Birkenhead, bled, bread, bred, coed, cred, crossbred, dead, dread, Ed, embed, Enzed, fed, fled, Fred, gainsaid, head, infrared, ked, lead, led, Med, misled, misread, Ned, outspread, premed, pure-bred, read, red, redd, said, samoyed, shed, sked, sled, sped, Spithead, spread, stead, ted, thread, tread, underbred, underfed, wed

Definition of shred in US English:

shred

nounSHredʃrɛd

usually shreds

1A strip of some material, such as paper, cloth, or food, that has been torn, cut, or scraped from something larger.
（由纸、布、食物等撕成、剪成或刮成的）细条；碎片
her beautiful dress was torn to shreds
她漂亮的裙子被撕成了碎条。
Example sentencesExamples
- By the sides of the road, triangular signs warned us presence of wind socks, but those that we saw had been torn to shreds by the Atlantic gale, and so posed no risk to anyone.
- The feathers came from Kathy's parka, torn to shreds.
- The hunter is doomed to being transformed by the vain goddess of hunting into a stag, to be pursued and torn to shreds by his own hounds.
- Her heart ached as the coldness gripped her and tore the dress to pieces, only shreds of innocent cloth lingering between her forsaken fingers.
- The policeman noted that there were multiple pieces of the curtains torn to shreds.
- At the film's end, Harry is left alone in his destroyed apartment, torn to shreds in a vain search for a planted microphone.
- The first half saw the Waterford defence torn to shreds with just Karl O'Keeffe and Paul Houlihan keeping the home side in the game at times.
- Most cities had been leveled, economies were shattered, resources completely depleted, and societies torn to shreds.
- I assume your values are against seeing people torn to shreds by car bombs.
- The very fabric of modern society rent asunder, all we hold dear torn to shreds and flushed down the lavatory.
- ‘They weren't eaten, there was no sign of a hungry animal here, they were just torn to shreds by dogs looking for fun,’ says James.
- This paper is not exhaustive and has only covered some of the areas in which the Constitution has been violated and its ideology torn to shreds.
- They found his robes all torn to shreds in one of the upper levels.
- In death, Dorris's reputation was torn to shreds.
- A hare is be given a short head start to blaze a trail, marking his devious way with shreds of paper, soon to be pursued by a shouting pack of harriers.
- Its wooing of such a company, in the eyes of many, shredded public confidence in the agency.
- The form book was torn to shreds, however, at Walsh Park on Saturday as the Carrickbeg men totally outplayed a ragged Dunhill side to clinch their semi-final place.
- Tear one of the shreds of licorice off the big licorice stick.
- The form-book has certainly been torn to shreds in the play-off stages of this fascinating intermediate championship.
- His nerves could easily have been torn to shreds following a series of false starts which led to the Greek being disqualified.
- What kind of sport is it that accepts one animal being torn to shreds by another?
- The hard copies have often been torn to shreds, but if a poem made it to my web site it has usually remained.
- Rick curled his lip in disgust, slumped in a corner a body, torn to shreds by shrapnel and bullet wounds.
- Yet the real battle for England is hoping its cricket revival is not going to be torn to shreds in this game by a rampant Aussie team who simply refuse to show any mercy to the old enemy.
- At one point, the flags were literally torn to shreds.
- The waves fling themselves at my feet, water torn to shreds - white ribbons thrown across the rocks.
- The federal Liberals have been more responsible for shredding the social safety net than any other government.
- We want the British constitution torn to shreds and reformulated in the interests of working people.
- Bits of dog harness torn to shreds were scattered about.
Synonyms
tatter, scrap, strip, ribbon, rag, snippet, snip, remnant, fragment, sliver, splinter, chip, bit, tiny bit, piece, tiny piece, wisp
1. 1.1often with negative A very small amount.
  极少量，些许
  there was not a shred of evidence that linked him to the fire
  Example sentencesExamples
  The courage to go out in public with at least a shred of dignity.
  Mortified by the embarrassment of this mistaken identity, I log off and retire to bed early to consider whether there's any possible way to turn this ridiculous situation around with a shred of dignity.
  ‘Even in England, where Lisa was born, there has been hardly a shred of coverage about her murder,’ she said.
  Idi's out of a coma, possibly blind, possibly brain-damaged, certainly in intense discomfort from renal failure, and without a shred of human dignity.
  In order to retain a shred of dignity, therefore, you should do as little work as possible while pretending to work.
  There is hardly a shred of human feeling or emotion in anything he does or believes in (aside from the numerous internal political battles he has engaged in to get to where he is today).
  That there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that the cyclist is taking, or has taken, drugs does not seem to count.
  If it's a ‘rivalry’ match-up, there's the chance he may halt it in a tie and leave 32,000 fans with a shred of dignity.
  If that Vallee fellow had a shred of dignity, he'd discard his ukulele and take up the foghorn.
  I like to say that I dumped him of course, because that way I at least get to keep a shred of dignity.
  But not a shred of evidence has ever been produced to suggest, for example, that our intelligence service is not under the control of the government.
  They lay stark naked, without a shred of dignity or decency in death.
  There's still a shred of dignity to be salvaged there, I think.
  This feat did not cost $4,000, and it left us with a shred of dignity.
  If they could just say, ‘We made a heck of a mistake, we caused untold misery,’ they could at least come away with a shred of dignity, but they will never do that.
  I tipped my head back and straightened my shoulders, trying to maintain a shred of dignity, but my attempts were futile.
  The others would have joined him if they didn't still retain a shred of dignity, but all the same, they were immensely relieved to be back on solid ground, some more than others.
  The drubbing is so complete that any filmmaker with even a shred of dignity would never pick up a camera without mounting a serious counter rebuttal.
  The shows are filled with PhD's and experts claiming this and that with hardly a shred of real truth brought to the fore.
  To date, however, there is not a shred of credible evidence to support the belief that ETs have already visited us.
  Synonyms
  scrap, bit, tiny amount, speck, iota, particle, ounce, whit, jot, atom, molecule, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum

verbSHredʃrɛd

1with object Tear or cut into shreds.
撕成（或切成）碎片
shredded cabbage
切成碎片的卷心菜。
Example sentencesExamples
- After delivery to the nursery it is shredded, and then stacked in long piles in an adjacent glasshouse.
- The skin of the oranges is peeled and the peels are shredded into small pieces.
- All of the recycled trees will be shredded and turned into mulch, which will be used to fertilise woodlands in the region.
- You place them into a box and no sooner is your back turned than they've shredded the box and disappeared.
- The tender inside leaves can be shredded finely for tasty salads and braised red cabbage is fantastic.
- Anyhow, I ducked out earlier to plant the new arrivals before the cats shredded them in their packaging.
- How they all seem so cool and brave, but each of them is nervously shredding the labels on their beer.
- I run my tongue over it gently, shredding it before grinding it between my well-developed teeth.
- They will be taken to a waste site in Bury where they will be shredded and prepared as compost for farmland across Lancashire.
- It will then be shredded and spread across the borough's parks to suppress weeds and put nutrients back into the soil.
- I poked it gently with the knife, even though I could see that it had been shredded, it had given its life for the family.
- Timber would be shredded to produce wood chips for the production of mulch, chipboard or compost.
- The garden shredder also aids in shredding debris from punning your hedges.
- They are shredded and used again to surface playgrounds and horse training tracks.
- Corsham Town Council is opposing a landowner who wants to use his industrial land for shredding motor tyres.
- I looked closer and it ended up being that half the fan belt had shredded itself and torn off.
- You may want to consider shredding the leaves and use it as winter mulch.
- The cabbage was shredded and packed in layers with salt, juniper and barberries, pepper, and spices.
- In a small bowl mix the juice of the lime with the fish sauce, sugar and the very finely shredded lime leaves.
- When I met the other guys for the first time I nervously shredded two beer coasters.
Synonyms
chop finely, cut up, tear up, rip up, grate, rub into pieces, mince, mangle, chew, macerate, grind, granulate, pulverize
2usually as noun shreddingno object Play a very fast, intricate style of rock lead guitar.
we want to hear everything from country and western to blisteringly fast guitar shredding
Example sentencesExamples
- Tony was in a band called The Ninth Plague and basically shreds on the guitar.
- I was impressed at how you can revive the 80's guitar shredding days without altering a thing.
- John Bonham rips apart the drums, Robert Plant sings his patented sexual style of the blues, Jimmy Page shreds on that double guitar and John Paul Jones keeps it all together with a rock-solid bass line.
- Several overlapping vocals are thrown over a punky guitar that shreds quickly over repeated cymbal crashes in the background.
- The rest blends together into an indistinct mass of guitar and vocal shredding.
- Dime was an incredible musician and person who influenced thousands of guitarists and pushed guitar shredding to a higher degree for many years.
- She won a few hearts from the male fans when she shredded out some righteous guitar solos.
- Unfortunately, the eviscerated shredding he applies in "Hallelujah!" engages initially for its novelty, but grows tiresome over repeated listenings.
- Shredding his way through gems such as "Three Days," " Been Caught Stealing "and current single" Just Because, " he showed why he is considered to be one of the top guitarists in the rock genre.
- Screaming and shredding are cathartic, yes, but nothing says sensitive like an acoustic guitar.

Phrases

in shreds

Very badly damaged; destroyed or ruined.
my reputation will be in shreds
〈喻〉我将身败名裂。
Example sentencesExamples
- Political posters were torn in shreds, property damaged.
- With the French president's ambitious plans for a cohesive, more centralised European Union in shreds, Ireland can take a bow.
- A French cabinet minister once branded him a " personality in shreds ".
- Smoked duck breast from Ilan County is cut in shreds.
- All over England, removal vans are probably circling, followed by weeping homeless persons, their hopes in shreds.
- In Bulawayo, police last week discovered several thousand Z $500 notes, mysteriously lying in shreds on a rubbish tip.
- I left the department store with my budget intact, but my Christmas spirit in shreds.
- Poor conditions cause injuries, as do the terrible shoes they wear until they are in shreds.
- The once effective Unemployment Insurance programme is in shreds.
- In a searing attack, Conservative leader said the Prime Minister's credibility lay in shreds.

tear someone/something to shreds

informal Criticize someone or something forcefully or aggressively.
a defense counsel would tear his evidence to shreds
Example sentencesExamples
- The pair are drawn into China's struggle, as nationalists, communists and warlords tear each other to pieces and Japan lurks in the shadows, waiting to pounce.
- How do you get to the point where you can create something without wanting to tear it to pieces five seconds later?
- I suspect that every Opposition MP would give his or her eye teeth at the moment to listen in on a Labour Party caucus that is tearing itself to pieces.
- There's a moment where everyone is just deconstructing the song, tearing it to pieces, which was the point of what we were doing this time.
- All because of a bold and sporty declaration by Sobers for which he was torn to pieces by the press.
- In all the years I have attended, I have never seen a lecturer torn to pieces like that.
- For Kierkegaard, the god torn to pieces is Christ, a transcendent God who has come down into the world.
- In this country we tend to either over praise someone, before knocking them down, or we just tear them to pieces straight away.
- The next quarter Cupido came on and went absolutely ga-ga and tore the opposition to pieces.
- There is almost nobody in this town who is not tearing him to pieces, said a congressional aide.

Origin

Late Old English scrēad ‘piece cut off’, scrēadian ‘trim, prune’, of West Germanic origin; related to shroud.

词汇	shred
释义	Definition of shred in English: shred nounPlural shreds ʃrɛdʃrɛd usually shreds 1A strip of material, such as paper, cloth, or food, that has been torn, cut, or scraped from something larger. （由纸、布、食物等撕成、剪成或刮成的）细条；碎片 her dress was torn to shreds 她漂亮的裙子被撕成了碎条。 Example sentencesExamples Yet the real battle for England is hoping its cricket revival is not going to be torn to shreds in this game by a rampant Aussie team who simply refuse to show any mercy to the old enemy. I assume your values are against seeing people torn to shreds by car bombs. In death, Dorris's reputation was torn to shreds. A hare is be given a short head start to blaze a trail, marking his devious way with shreds of paper, soon to be pursued by a shouting pack of harriers. The hunter is doomed to being transformed by the vain goddess of hunting into a stag, to be pursued and torn to shreds by his own hounds. We want the British constitution torn to shreds and reformulated in the interests of working people. His nerves could easily have been torn to shreds following a series of false starts which led to the Greek being disqualified. This paper is not exhaustive and has only covered some of the areas in which the Constitution has been violated and its ideology torn to shreds. Tear one of the shreds of licorice off the big licorice stick. The feathers came from Kathy's parka, torn to shreds. Most cities had been leveled, economies were shattered, resources completely depleted, and societies torn to shreds. By the sides of the road, triangular signs warned us presence of wind socks, but those that we saw had been torn to shreds by the Atlantic gale, and so posed no risk to anyone. The form-book has certainly been torn to shreds in the play-off stages of this fascinating intermediate championship. At the film's end, Harry is left alone in his destroyed apartment, torn to shreds in a vain search for a planted microphone. The waves fling themselves at my feet, water torn to shreds - white ribbons thrown across the rocks. Her heart ached as the coldness gripped her and tore the dress to pieces, only shreds of innocent cloth lingering between her forsaken fingers. Bits of dog harness torn to shreds were scattered about. They found his robes all torn to shreds in one of the upper levels. The federal Liberals have been more responsible for shredding the social safety net than any other government. What kind of sport is it that accepts one animal being torn to shreds by another? The very fabric of modern society rent asunder, all we hold dear torn to shreds and flushed down the lavatory. Its wooing of such a company, in the eyes of many, shredded public confidence in the agency. The hard copies have often been torn to shreds, but if a poem made it to my web site it has usually remained. The first half saw the Waterford defence torn to shreds with just Karl O'Keeffe and Paul Houlihan keeping the home side in the game at times. Rick curled his lip in disgust, slumped in a corner a body, torn to shreds by shrapnel and bullet wounds. The policeman noted that there were multiple pieces of the curtains torn to shreds. The form book was torn to shreds, however, at Walsh Park on Saturday as the Carrickbeg men totally outplayed a ragged Dunhill side to clinch their semi-final place. ‘They weren't eaten, there was no sign of a hungry animal here, they were just torn to shreds by dogs looking for fun,’ says James. At one point, the flags were literally torn to shreds. Synonyms tatter, scrap, strip, ribbon, rag, snippet, snip, remnant, fragment, sliver, splinter, chip, bit, tiny bit, piece, tiny piece, wisp 1.1often with negative A very small amount. 极少量，些许 we have not a shred of evidence to go on 我们一点证据也没有。 Example sentencesExamples To date, however, there is not a shred of credible evidence to support the belief that ETs have already visited us. Idi's out of a coma, possibly blind, possibly brain-damaged, certainly in intense discomfort from renal failure, and without a shred of human dignity. ‘Even in England, where Lisa was born, there has been hardly a shred of coverage about her murder,’ she said. I like to say that I dumped him of course, because that way I at least get to keep a shred of dignity. Mortified by the embarrassment of this mistaken identity, I log off and retire to bed early to consider whether there's any possible way to turn this ridiculous situation around with a shred of dignity. There is hardly a shred of human feeling or emotion in anything he does or believes in (aside from the numerous internal political battles he has engaged in to get to where he is today). The others would have joined him if they didn't still retain a shred of dignity, but all the same, they were immensely relieved to be back on solid ground, some more than others. In order to retain a shred of dignity, therefore, you should do as little work as possible while pretending to work. If they could just say, ‘We made a heck of a mistake, we caused untold misery,’ they could at least come away with a shred of dignity, but they will never do that. The shows are filled with PhD's and experts claiming this and that with hardly a shred of real truth brought to the fore. That there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that the cyclist is taking, or has taken, drugs does not seem to count. The courage to go out in public with at least a shred of dignity. This feat did not cost $4,000, and it left us with a shred of dignity. They lay stark naked, without a shred of dignity or decency in death. I tipped my head back and straightened my shoulders, trying to maintain a shred of dignity, but my attempts were futile. There's still a shred of dignity to be salvaged there, I think. If that Vallee fellow had a shred of dignity, he'd discard his ukulele and take up the foghorn. If it's a ‘rivalry’ match-up, there's the chance he may halt it in a tie and leave 32,000 fans with a shred of dignity. The drubbing is so complete that any filmmaker with even a shred of dignity would never pick up a camera without mounting a serious counter rebuttal. But not a shred of evidence has ever been produced to suggest, for example, that our intelligence service is not under the control of the government. Synonyms scrap, bit, tiny amount, speck, iota, particle, ounce, whit, jot, atom, molecule, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum Irish stim informal smidgen, smidge verbshreds, shredding, shredded ʃrɛdʃrɛd 1with object Tear or cut into shreds. 撕成（或切成）碎片 Example sentencesExamples The garden shredder also aids in shredding debris from punning your hedges. I looked closer and it ended up being that half the fan belt had shredded itself and torn off. How they all seem so cool and brave, but each of them is nervously shredding the labels on their beer. You may want to consider shredding the leaves and use it as winter mulch. The cabbage was shredded and packed in layers with salt, juniper and barberries, pepper, and spices. Anyhow, I ducked out earlier to plant the new arrivals before the cats shredded them in their packaging. The tender inside leaves can be shredded finely for tasty salads and braised red cabbage is fantastic. When I met the other guys for the first time I nervously shredded two beer coasters. I run my tongue over it gently, shredding it before grinding it between my well-developed teeth. The skin of the oranges is peeled and the peels are shredded into small pieces. They will be taken to a waste site in Bury where they will be shredded and prepared as compost for farmland across Lancashire. Timber would be shredded to produce wood chips for the production of mulch, chipboard or compost. All of the recycled trees will be shredded and turned into mulch, which will be used to fertilise woodlands in the region. It will then be shredded and spread across the borough's parks to suppress weeds and put nutrients back into the soil. In a small bowl mix the juice of the lime with the fish sauce, sugar and the very finely shredded lime leaves. They are shredded and used again to surface playgrounds and horse training tracks. After delivery to the nursery it is shredded, and then stacked in long piles in an adjacent glasshouse. Corsham Town Council is opposing a landowner who wants to use his industrial land for shredding motor tyres. I poked it gently with the knife, even though I could see that it had been shredded, it had given its life for the family. You place them into a box and no sooner is your back turned than they've shredded the box and disappeared. Synonyms chop finely, cut up, tear up, rip up, grate, rub into pieces, mince, mangle, chew, macerate, grind, granulate, pulverize 1.1 Reduce documents to unreadable strips by feeding them into a shredder. executives have shredded key documents Example sentencesExamples Fortunately, most firms now make a habit of shredding documents they no longer need. Shred unwanted paperwork such as bank statements, credit card receipts, council tax and utility bills before throwing them away. We receive a certificate to show the date that the documents were shredded. Statements and related receipts being discarded after the retention period should be shredded or otherwise destroyed. They took my identification papers and started to shred them. He has also raised questions over whether e-mails were deleted or documents shredded. Also, do not throw or shred non-confidential documents that have been read. A recent report has found that two thirds of us now regularly shred or destroy personal documents, and 12% take extra care when using the internet. Shred all important papers especially anything with names or banking information on it. Deleting e-mail is like shredding documents - it destroys evidence forever. 2usually as noun shreddingno object Play a very fast, intricate style of rock lead guitar. we want to hear everything from country and western to blisteringly fast guitar shredding Example sentencesExamples Several overlapping vocals are thrown over a punky guitar that shreds quickly over repeated cymbal crashes in the background. John Bonham rips apart the drums, Robert Plant sings his patented sexual style of the blues, Jimmy Page shreds on that double guitar and John Paul Jones keeps it all together with a rock-solid bass line. The rest blends together into an indistinct mass of guitar and vocal shredding. I was impressed at how you can revive the 80's guitar shredding days without altering a thing. Unfortunately, the eviscerated shredding he applies in "Hallelujah!" engages initially for its novelty, but grows tiresome over repeated listenings. Tony was in a band called The Ninth Plague and basically shreds on the guitar. Screaming and shredding are cathartic, yes, but nothing says sensitive like an acoustic guitar. Dime was an incredible musician and person who influenced thousands of guitarists and pushed guitar shredding to a higher degree for many years. Shredding his way through gems such as "Three Days," " Been Caught Stealing "and current single" Just Because, " he showed why he is considered to be one of the top guitarists in the rock genre. She won a few hearts from the male fans when she shredded out some righteous guitar solos. Phrases in shreds Very badly damaged; destroyed or ruined. my reputation will be in shreds 〈喻〉我将身败名裂。 Example sentencesExamples With the French president's ambitious plans for a cohesive, more centralised European Union in shreds, Ireland can take a bow. All over England, removal vans are probably circling, followed by weeping homeless persons, their hopes in shreds. I left the department store with my budget intact, but my Christmas spirit in shreds. Smoked duck breast from Ilan County is cut in shreds. The once effective Unemployment Insurance programme is in shreds. In a searing attack, Conservative leader said the Prime Minister's credibility lay in shreds. Political posters were torn in shreds, property damaged. A French cabinet minister once branded him a " personality in shreds ". Poor conditions cause injuries, as do the terrible shoes they wear until they are in shreds. In Bulawayo, police last week discovered several thousand Z $500 notes, mysteriously lying in shreds on a rubbish tip. tear someone/something to shreds informal Criticize someone or something aggressively. a defence counsel would tear his evidence to shreds Example sentencesExamples For Kierkegaard, the god torn to pieces is Christ, a transcendent God who has come down into the world. How do you get to the point where you can create something without wanting to tear it to pieces five seconds later? There is almost nobody in this town who is not tearing him to pieces, said a congressional aide. The next quarter Cupido came on and went absolutely ga-ga and tore the opposition to pieces. I suspect that every Opposition MP would give his or her eye teeth at the moment to listen in on a Labour Party caucus that is tearing itself to pieces. In all the years I have attended, I have never seen a lecturer torn to pieces like that. In this country we tend to either over praise someone, before knocking them down, or we just tear them to pieces straight away. There's a moment where everyone is just deconstructing the song, tearing it to pieces, which was the point of what we were doing this time. All because of a bold and sporty declaration by Sobers for which he was torn to pieces by the press. The pair are drawn into China's struggle, as nationalists, communists and warlords tear each other to pieces and Japan lurks in the shadows, waiting to pounce. Origin Late Old English scrēad 'piece cut off', scrēadian 'trim, prune', of West Germanic origin; related to shroud. shroud from Old English: Late Old English scrūd meant ‘garment, clothing’ and is from a Germanic source from a base meaning ‘cut’; shred (Old English) is related. An early sense of to shroud in Middle English was ‘cover so as to protect’. Use for the sheet in which a corpse is laid out, dates from the late 16th century. Rhymes abed, ahead, bed, behead, Birkenhead, bled, bread, bred, coed, cred, crossbred, dead, dread, Ed, embed, Enzed, fed, fled, Fred, gainsaid, head, infrared, ked, lead, led, Med, misled, misread, Ned, outspread, premed, pure-bred, read, red, redd, said, samoyed, shed, sked, sled, sped, Spithead, spread, stead, ted, thread, tread, underbred, underfed, wed noun.1 phr. Definition of shred in US English: shred nounSHredʃrɛd usually shreds 1A strip of some material, such as paper, cloth, or food, that has been torn, cut, or scraped from something larger. （由纸、布、食物等撕成、剪成或刮成的）细条；碎片 her beautiful dress was torn to shreds 她漂亮的裙子被撕成了碎条。 Example sentencesExamples By the sides of the road, triangular signs warned us presence of wind socks, but those that we saw had been torn to shreds by the Atlantic gale, and so posed no risk to anyone. The feathers came from Kathy's parka, torn to shreds. The hunter is doomed to being transformed by the vain goddess of hunting into a stag, to be pursued and torn to shreds by his own hounds. Her heart ached as the coldness gripped her and tore the dress to pieces, only shreds of innocent cloth lingering between her forsaken fingers. The policeman noted that there were multiple pieces of the curtains torn to shreds. At the film's end, Harry is left alone in his destroyed apartment, torn to shreds in a vain search for a planted microphone. The first half saw the Waterford defence torn to shreds with just Karl O'Keeffe and Paul Houlihan keeping the home side in the game at times. Most cities had been leveled, economies were shattered, resources completely depleted, and societies torn to shreds. I assume your values are against seeing people torn to shreds by car bombs. The very fabric of modern society rent asunder, all we hold dear torn to shreds and flushed down the lavatory. ‘They weren't eaten, there was no sign of a hungry animal here, they were just torn to shreds by dogs looking for fun,’ says James. This paper is not exhaustive and has only covered some of the areas in which the Constitution has been violated and its ideology torn to shreds. They found his robes all torn to shreds in one of the upper levels. In death, Dorris's reputation was torn to shreds. A hare is be given a short head start to blaze a trail, marking his devious way with shreds of paper, soon to be pursued by a shouting pack of harriers. Its wooing of such a company, in the eyes of many, shredded public confidence in the agency. The form book was torn to shreds, however, at Walsh Park on Saturday as the Carrickbeg men totally outplayed a ragged Dunhill side to clinch their semi-final place. Tear one of the shreds of licorice off the big licorice stick. The form-book has certainly been torn to shreds in the play-off stages of this fascinating intermediate championship. His nerves could easily have been torn to shreds following a series of false starts which led to the Greek being disqualified. What kind of sport is it that accepts one animal being torn to shreds by another? The hard copies have often been torn to shreds, but if a poem made it to my web site it has usually remained. Rick curled his lip in disgust, slumped in a corner a body, torn to shreds by shrapnel and bullet wounds. Yet the real battle for England is hoping its cricket revival is not going to be torn to shreds in this game by a rampant Aussie team who simply refuse to show any mercy to the old enemy. At one point, the flags were literally torn to shreds. The waves fling themselves at my feet, water torn to shreds - white ribbons thrown across the rocks. The federal Liberals have been more responsible for shredding the social safety net than any other government. We want the British constitution torn to shreds and reformulated in the interests of working people. Bits of dog harness torn to shreds were scattered about. Synonyms tatter, scrap, strip, ribbon, rag, snippet, snip, remnant, fragment, sliver, splinter, chip, bit, tiny bit, piece, tiny piece, wisp 1.1often with negative A very small amount. 极少量，些许 there was not a shred of evidence that linked him to the fire Example sentencesExamples The courage to go out in public with at least a shred of dignity. Mortified by the embarrassment of this mistaken identity, I log off and retire to bed early to consider whether there's any possible way to turn this ridiculous situation around with a shred of dignity. ‘Even in England, where Lisa was born, there has been hardly a shred of coverage about her murder,’ she said. Idi's out of a coma, possibly blind, possibly brain-damaged, certainly in intense discomfort from renal failure, and without a shred of human dignity. In order to retain a shred of dignity, therefore, you should do as little work as possible while pretending to work. There is hardly a shred of human feeling or emotion in anything he does or believes in (aside from the numerous internal political battles he has engaged in to get to where he is today). That there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that the cyclist is taking, or has taken, drugs does not seem to count. If it's a ‘rivalry’ match-up, there's the chance he may halt it in a tie and leave 32,000 fans with a shred of dignity. If that Vallee fellow had a shred of dignity, he'd discard his ukulele and take up the foghorn. I like to say that I dumped him of course, because that way I at least get to keep a shred of dignity. But not a shred of evidence has ever been produced to suggest, for example, that our intelligence service is not under the control of the government. They lay stark naked, without a shred of dignity or decency in death. There's still a shred of dignity to be salvaged there, I think. This feat did not cost $4,000, and it left us with a shred of dignity. If they could just say, ‘We made a heck of a mistake, we caused untold misery,’ they could at least come away with a shred of dignity, but they will never do that. I tipped my head back and straightened my shoulders, trying to maintain a shred of dignity, but my attempts were futile. The others would have joined him if they didn't still retain a shred of dignity, but all the same, they were immensely relieved to be back on solid ground, some more than others. The drubbing is so complete that any filmmaker with even a shred of dignity would never pick up a camera without mounting a serious counter rebuttal. The shows are filled with PhD's and experts claiming this and that with hardly a shred of real truth brought to the fore. To date, however, there is not a shred of credible evidence to support the belief that ETs have already visited us. Synonyms scrap, bit, tiny amount, speck, iota, particle, ounce, whit, jot, atom, molecule, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum verbSHredʃrɛd 1with object Tear or cut into shreds. 撕成（或切成）碎片 shredded cabbage 切成碎片的卷心菜。 Example sentencesExamples After delivery to the nursery it is shredded, and then stacked in long piles in an adjacent glasshouse. The skin of the oranges is peeled and the peels are shredded into small pieces. All of the recycled trees will be shredded and turned into mulch, which will be used to fertilise woodlands in the region. You place them into a box and no sooner is your back turned than they've shredded the box and disappeared. The tender inside leaves can be shredded finely for tasty salads and braised red cabbage is fantastic. Anyhow, I ducked out earlier to plant the new arrivals before the cats shredded them in their packaging. How they all seem so cool and brave, but each of them is nervously shredding the labels on their beer. I run my tongue over it gently, shredding it before grinding it between my well-developed teeth. They will be taken to a waste site in Bury where they will be shredded and prepared as compost for farmland across Lancashire. It will then be shredded and spread across the borough's parks to suppress weeds and put nutrients back into the soil. I poked it gently with the knife, even though I could see that it had been shredded, it had given its life for the family. Timber would be shredded to produce wood chips for the production of mulch, chipboard or compost. The garden shredder also aids in shredding debris from punning your hedges. They are shredded and used again to surface playgrounds and horse training tracks. Corsham Town Council is opposing a landowner who wants to use his industrial land for shredding motor tyres. I looked closer and it ended up being that half the fan belt had shredded itself and torn off. You may want to consider shredding the leaves and use it as winter mulch. The cabbage was shredded and packed in layers with salt, juniper and barberries, pepper, and spices. In a small bowl mix the juice of the lime with the fish sauce, sugar and the very finely shredded lime leaves. When I met the other guys for the first time I nervously shredded two beer coasters. Synonyms chop finely, cut up, tear up, rip up, grate, rub into pieces, mince, mangle, chew, macerate, grind, granulate, pulverize 2usually as noun shreddingno object Play a very fast, intricate style of rock lead guitar. we want to hear everything from country and western to blisteringly fast guitar shredding Example sentencesExamples Tony was in a band called The Ninth Plague and basically shreds on the guitar. I was impressed at how you can revive the 80's guitar shredding days without altering a thing. John Bonham rips apart the drums, Robert Plant sings his patented sexual style of the blues, Jimmy Page shreds on that double guitar and John Paul Jones keeps it all together with a rock-solid bass line. Several overlapping vocals are thrown over a punky guitar that shreds quickly over repeated cymbal crashes in the background. The rest blends together into an indistinct mass of guitar and vocal shredding. Dime was an incredible musician and person who influenced thousands of guitarists and pushed guitar shredding to a higher degree for many years. She won a few hearts from the male fans when she shredded out some righteous guitar solos. Unfortunately, the eviscerated shredding he applies in "Hallelujah!" engages initially for its novelty, but grows tiresome over repeated listenings. Shredding his way through gems such as "Three Days," " Been Caught Stealing "and current single" Just Because, " he showed why he is considered to be one of the top guitarists in the rock genre. Screaming and shredding are cathartic, yes, but nothing says sensitive like an acoustic guitar. Phrases in shreds Very badly damaged; destroyed or ruined. my reputation will be in shreds 〈喻〉我将身败名裂。 Example sentencesExamples Political posters were torn in shreds, property damaged. With the French president's ambitious plans for a cohesive, more centralised European Union in shreds, Ireland can take a bow. A French cabinet minister once branded him a " personality in shreds ". Smoked duck breast from Ilan County is cut in shreds. All over England, removal vans are probably circling, followed by weeping homeless persons, their hopes in shreds. In Bulawayo, police last week discovered several thousand Z $500 notes, mysteriously lying in shreds on a rubbish tip. I left the department store with my budget intact, but my Christmas spirit in shreds. Poor conditions cause injuries, as do the terrible shoes they wear until they are in shreds. The once effective Unemployment Insurance programme is in shreds. In a searing attack, Conservative leader said the Prime Minister's credibility lay in shreds. tear someone/something to shreds informal Criticize someone or something forcefully or aggressively. a defense counsel would tear his evidence to shreds Example sentencesExamples The pair are drawn into China's struggle, as nationalists, communists and warlords tear each other to pieces and Japan lurks in the shadows, waiting to pounce. How do you get to the point where you can create something without wanting to tear it to pieces five seconds later? I suspect that every Opposition MP would give his or her eye teeth at the moment to listen in on a Labour Party caucus that is tearing itself to pieces. There's a moment where everyone is just deconstructing the song, tearing it to pieces, which was the point of what we were doing this time. All because of a bold and sporty declaration by Sobers for which he was torn to pieces by the press. In all the years I have attended, I have never seen a lecturer torn to pieces like that. For Kierkegaard, the god torn to pieces is Christ, a transcendent God who has come down into the world. In this country we tend to either over praise someone, before knocking them down, or we just tear them to pieces straight away. The next quarter Cupido came on and went absolutely ga-ga and tore the opposition to pieces. There is almost nobody in this town who is not tearing him to pieces, said a congressional aide. Origin Late Old English scrēad ‘piece cut off’, scrēadian ‘trim, prune’, of West Germanic origin; related to shroud. noun.1 phr.
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