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plural of shred
Synonyms & Antonyms of shreds
(Entry 1 of 2)
a very small amount
- the vandals showed not a shred of decency
Synonyms for shreds
- aces,
- bits,
- crumbs,
- dabs,
- drams,
- driblets,
- glimmers,
- hints,
- licks,
- little,
- mites,
- nips,
- ounces,
- particles,
- peanuts,
- rays,
- scintillas,
- scruples,
- shades,
- shadows,
- skoshes,
- smacks,
- smells,
- smidgens
- (also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges),
- snaps,
- soupçons,
- sparks,
- spatters,
- specks,
- splashes,
- spots,
- sprinklings,
- strains,
- streaks,
- suspicions,
- touches,
- traces
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Near Antonyms for shreds
- abundances,
- barrels,
- boatloads,
- buckets,
- bundles,
- bushels,
- deals,
- fistfuls,
- gobs,
- heaps,
- lashings
- (also lashins)
- [chiefly British],
- loads,
- lots,
- masses,
- messes,
- mountains,
- much,
- oodles,
- passels,
- pecks,
- piles,
- plenties,
- potfuls,
- profusions,
- quantities,
- rafts,
- reams,
- scads,
- stacks,
- wads,
- wealths
shreds
verbpresent tense third-person singular of shred
Synonyms of shreds (Entry 2 of 2)
to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it
- shredded some cooked chicken for the soup
Synonyms for shreds
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