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to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it
shredded some cooked chicken for the soup
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Recent Examples of shredded
Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2025
That’s evidence, the team suggests, of the shredded remains of a planet very close to the white dwarf.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Mar. 2025
Aj Willingham, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Just shredded to high hell, then handed the guitar to the audience and left.
—Dave Schilling, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
Creative additions like shredded cheese, diced water chestnuts, and sweet and sour chili sauce help set the recipe apart from the rest.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2025
That’s evidence, the team suggests, of the shredded remains of a planet very close to the white dwarf.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Mar. 2025
Verb
Those materials are then shredded into small pieces before being separated by type and then refined into recycled materials ready for reuse.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Just shredded to high hell, then handed the guitar to the audience and left.
—Dave Schilling, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shredded
Verb
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But the Hawks’ present-day problems ripped them right back into the here and now.—
Phil Thompson,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Jan. 2025
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Milton’s hurricane-force winds ripped trees from already soggy soils, but its historic rain also flooded neighborhoods that had never experienced waters so high.—
Jack Prator,
Orlando Sentinel,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Like Napoleon’s Uncle Rico, who dwells on his long-ago high-school-football days, Garrett is living in the faded aura of past glory: in his case, a 1989 video-game championship.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
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As thousands of migrants cycled through its faded lobby, the Roosevelt turned into a lightning rod in the country’s immigration debate: both as a reminder of the depth of the crisis and as shorthand for critics opposed to the expenditure of taxpayer money on migrants.—
Luis Ferré-Sadurní,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The Carolina Panthers’ outside linebacker tore his quad on Christmas Eve last year in what turned out to be his final game with the Minnesota Vikings.—
Joseph Person,
The Athletic,
24 Dec. 2024
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In its first game without Sixth Man of the Year candidate Moe Wagner, who tore the ACL in his left knee on Saturday, Orlando relied on a wide variety of scorers, with five finishing in double figures.—
Jason Beede,
Orlando Sentinel,
24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Again, Hunter was limited to nine games in 2023, this time after taking a late hit against Colorado State that left him with a lacerated liver.—
Ralph D. Russo,
The Athletic,
15 Dec. 2024
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The Georgia native suffered a lacerated liver in the Buffs’ win over CSU in the 2023 Rocky Mountain Showdown and missed three games, returning for a 46-43 home loss to Stanford.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
12 Oct. 2024
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“Shredded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shredded. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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