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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
ABC News,
22 June 2026
So as the team made its way up the Canyon of Heroes Thursday morning, it was showered instead with shredded office paper and blue and orange confetti.
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Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
18 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.
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Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2026
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Adjective
Add or remove shredded memory foam filling for personalized comfort.
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ABC News,
22 June 2026
So as the team made its way up the Canyon of Heroes Thursday morning, it was showered instead with shredded office paper and blue and orange confetti.
—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
18 June 2026
Verb
In many cases, their floppy ears would get shredded, pulled or damaged when chasing wild animals.
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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
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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.
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The one difference was a new layer of red bricks over the faded previous layer.
Verb
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Lineage, which describes itself as the world's largest owner of cold storage facilities, experienced a fire at another of its warehouses, in Finley, Washington, which ripped through the entire building and burned for two months in 2024.
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The lessons aren’t all that different from the great breadstick campaign of 2014, when Starboard’s Jeff Smith’s play at Olive Garden parent Darden literally ripped the company for undersalting its pasta water in an effort to save money on pots and pans.
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.
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The mayor broke nine ribs and suffered a lacerated liver and semi-collapsed lung, the statement said.
Verb
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In 2021, disaster nearly erased the landmark entirely when a fire tore through much of the restaurant, heavily damaging the building.
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In the hours after two earthquakes tore through northern Venezuela on the evening of June 24, the people pulling survivors from the rubble were, overwhelmingly, the survivors’ own neighbors.
Adjective
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Keep It Clean An unkempt shower curtain can make your bathroom appear dingy.
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But even the most stylish setup can be dulled by dingy concrete.
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“Shredded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shredded. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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