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shredder

[ shred-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that shreds.
  2. a machine for destroying secret or private documents by shredding shredding them.
  3. any of various devices used to shred crops, vegetables, wood, metal, etc.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shredder1

First recorded in 1565–75; shred + -er 1

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Example Sentences

And what would make you want to immediately slip a story into the paper shredder?

But the theme was universal; King likes to take your typical family unit and put it through a shredder.

The next year, in the same club, the Cromwellian, he would meet another shredder, Jeff Beck.

This means a Strong-breasted one, the Pourer or Shredder forth of spiritual and temporal blessings.

Shred the cabbage finely by cutting across the leaves with a sharp knife or a cabbage shredder.

Corn after being matured and cut can be put in shocks and left thus until dry enough to run through the husker and shredder.

The shredder and husker turns the hitherto useless cornstalk into food, and at the same time husks, or shucks, the corn.

They were to be put forthwith through the company's shredder.

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