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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
Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 17 June 2026
The city is distributing 2,500 pounds of shredded paper to office buildings along the route for workers to shower players and fans outside their windows.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
Pat Mueller, USA Today, 12 June 2026
The bodice of the skintight red dress featured multiple cutouts and fringe, which gave the illusion the dress had been shredded, with gold bars holding the pieces together.
—Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
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Adjective
Signature bowls include the Hash Hash (braised beef, sweet potato hash, horseradish crema, feta and pickled onion) and The Pioneer (shredded chicken, sweet potato hash, Peruvian green sauce, Israeli pico de gallo and micro cilantro).
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 17 June 2026
The city is distributing 2,500 pounds of shredded paper to office buildings along the route for workers to shower players and fans outside their windows.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
Verb
In many cases, their floppy ears would get shredded, pulled or damaged when chasing wild animals.
—Pat Mueller, USA Today, 12 June 2026
The bodice of the skintight red dress featured multiple cutouts and fringe, which gave the illusion the dress had been shredded, with gold bars holding the pieces together.
—Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shredded
Adjective
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Directed by Son Jae-gon and starring Gang Dong-won, Uhm Tae-goo, and Park Ji-hyun, the film tracks a faded first-generation K-pop co-ed dance trio making a reckless attempt to stage a comeback two decades after a plagiarism scandal dissolved their careers.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
22 June 2026
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The one difference was a new layer of red bricks over the faded previous layer.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
Verb
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Police alleged that Love ripped a credit card reader from its mount and threw it at the employee, striking her in the head and breaking her glasses.—
Brittany Miller,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
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Perhaps the police ripped it from me that time on Merrion Square.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
Adjective
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The girl sustained three spinal injuries, a fractured nose and a lacerated liver as a result of the crash, according to Taylor Brashaw, who organized a GoFundMe for Laila and her family after the incident.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
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The mayor broke nine ribs and suffered a lacerated liver and semi-collapsed lung, the statement said.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
12 Nov. 2025
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The May 28 fire tore through a dormitory housing 202 students at the Utumishi Girls School in central Kenya, and students were forced to flee through a single doorway when the school matron failed to open an emergency exit.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 June 2026
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Ultimately, the partnership didn’t work out, as Lillard tore his left Achilles tendon in the 2025 playoffs.—
Eric Nehm,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
Adjective
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Melanie Hamrick, a former member of American Ballet Theatre’s corps de ballet, was leaping down a dingy stairwell in the company’s lower-Broadway rehearsal building recently.—
Bob Morris,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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Even though modern machines and detergents have taken most of the workload out of the task, there are still some outdated laundry habits that may leave your clothes and linens looking dingy, smelling less than fresh, and feeling scratchy.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
12 June 2026
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“Shredded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shredded. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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