shredding

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shredding

Rhymes with -ɛdɪŋ

noun shreddings

countable, uncountable The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
countable, uncountable That which is cut or torn off; a piece. It hath a number of short cuts or shreddings, which may be better called wishes than prayers.
uncountable A style of very fast and very complex guitar playing.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of shred

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: chopped, cut, sliced, fragmentation, breakage, chipping, grinding, destruction, obliteration, destroy, crushing, devastation, elimination, maceration, milling, destroying

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@misc{shredding_2026,
  title = {shredding},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shredding},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}