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View synonyms for shredding

shredding

or shread·ing

[ shred-ing ]

noun

  1. furring attached to the undersides of rafters.


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  • non·shredding adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of shredding1

First recorded in 1660–70; origin uncertain

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Example Sentences

Her distinctive shredding can also sound very disturbed, and the more disturbed, the better.

Six hundred years of Mideast history are now fully and finally shredding.

Last month he stepped on a police stun grenade as it blew up, shredding his clothes and fracturing ribs.

Unlike a lot of young musicians, you never wanted to be the shredding lead guitarist type.

Can his inner circle stay in power without shredding the Venezuelan constitution?

I turned hastily, just in time to see the farrow cow in the act of shredding herself through a tight barbed wire fence.

"I expect you'll enjoy being in London," she said, slowly shredding the flowers from a spray of wild mignonette.

Providentially there was a shredding of the fog at Hell Gate, a shore-breeze flicking the mists off the surface of the water.

Shredding half the penguin-meat, we boiled it up and found the stew and broth excellent.

The rugs were worn, worn to the shredding point, worn until the spurious Oriental design seemed an eerie Dali drawing.

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