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shredding

shredding noun: the act of cutting or tearing into shreds. Also the present participle and gerund of shred.

Noun

shredding (countable and uncountable, plural shreddings)

  1. The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
  2. That which is cut or torn off; a piece.
    • It hath a number of short cuts or shreddings, which may be better called wishes than prayers.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
  3. (uncountable) A style of very fast and very complex guitar playing.

Also used as

shredding is also the present participle and gerund of shred.

shredding meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada

shredding in Tamil

துண்டாக்குதல்

shredding in Telugu

ముక్కలు చేయడం

shredding in Kannada

ಚೂರುಚೂರು ಮಾಡುವುದು

Forms of shredding

pluralshreddings

Words that rhyme with shredding

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Questions about shredding

What does shredding mean?
Shredding means the act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
What is shredding in Tamil?
Shredding in Tamil is துண்டாக்குதல். See Shredding meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shredding?
Shredding is a noun.
What is the plural of shredding?
The plural of shredding is shreddings.

Words near shredding in the dictionary

  1. shreddeth
  2. shreddier
  3. shreddies
  4. shreddiest
  5. shreddiness
  6. shredding
  7. shreddings
  8. shredduce
  9. shreddy
  10. shredless
  11. shredlet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shredding (page history and authors); shredding (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shredding (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shredding (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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