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Shred   /ʃrɛd/   Listen
noun
Shred  n.  
1.
A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. "Shreds of tanned leather."
2.
In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.


verb
Shred  v. t.  (past & past part. shred or shredded; pres. part. shredding)  
1.
To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.
2.
To lop; to prune; to trim. (Obs.)





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"Shred" Quotes from Famous Books



... of men's souls! The fact is, Mr. Morton, that the spirit of conservatism in this country is so strong that you cannot bear to part with a shred of the barbarism of the middle ages. And when a rag is sent to the winds you shriek with agony at the disruption, and think that the wound will be mortal." As Mr. Gotobed said this he extended his right hand and laid his left on ...
— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope
... in the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday morning, the Magistrate said to the police in charge of the cases: 'I am amazed that you men should bring these prisoners before me without a shred of evidence on which they ...
— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various
... a shred of fear of losing her life, it disappeared under the caress of this false glory.... To die contemplated by so many valiant men who were rendering her the greatest of honors! She felt the necessity ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... from his cloak Delphis lost; that now I shred and cast into the cruel flame. Ah, ah, thou torturing Love, why clingest thou to me like a leech of the fen, and drainest all the black blood from ...
— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang
... came. It came swiftly, suddenly, like most matters of great import. His opportunity came at the psychological moment, when the last shred of temperance had been torn from wild, lawless hearts, which, in such moments, were little better than those of savage beasts. It came when the poison of complaint and bitterness had at last searched out the inmost recesses of stunted, brutalized minds. And Beasley snatched ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum


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