SHRED


Meaning of SHRED in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃred ]

( shreds, shredding, shredded)

1.

If you shred something such as food or paper, you cut it or tear it into very small, narrow pieces.

They may be shredding documents...

Finely shred the carrots, cabbage and cored apples.

VERB : V n , V n

2.

If you cut or tear food or paper into shreds , you cut or tear it into small, narrow pieces.

Cut the cabbage into fine long shreds.

N-COUNT : usu pl

3.

If there is not a shred of something, there is not even a small amount of it.

He said there was not a shred of evidence to support such remarks...

There is not a shred of truth in the story...

= scrap

N-COUNT : N of n , usu with brd-neg

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