Definitions for shredding

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Spelling: [shred-ing]
IPA: /ˈʃrɛd ɪŋ/

Shredding is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 329 anagrams from letters in shredding (ddeghinrs).

Definitions for shredding

noun

  1. furring attached to the undersides of rafters.
  2. a piece cut or torn off, especially in a narrow strip.
  3. a bit; scrap:

verb (used with object)

  1. to cut or tear into small pieces, especially small strips; reduce to shreds.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be cut up, torn, etc.:

Origin of shredding

First recorded in 1660-70; origin uncertain

Examples for shredding

The itching is relieved by an action similar to that of shredding a coconut.

The darkness was shredding away so fast that John got a clear view.

It may be detected by the finer character (due to shredding) of the grass.

Over the next decade and a half, she became increasingly obsessed with shredding her image.

Unlike a lot of young musicians, you never wanted to be the shredding lead guitarist type.

Seconds later, a thousand-pound bomb cooked off, obliterating the firefighters, blowing you back, and shredding your plane.

Last month he stepped on a police stun grenade as it blew up, shredding his clothes and fracturing ribs.

The second, the kitchen-maid, is shredding macaroni for to-morrow noon.

Liberals often inject racism, economic inequality, and the shredding of social safety nets as the root.

shredding this, he found imbedded in the center the bullet which had perforated the body.

Word Value for shredding
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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