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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of tearing or cutting into shreds; also, the act of pruning or clipping.
  2. n. That which is shred; a ragged strip; a fragment; a scrap.
  3. n. plural In carpentry, short, light pieces of timber fixed as bearers below a roof, forming a straight line with the upper side of the rafters. Also called furrings.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncountable A style of very fast and very complex guitar playing.
  2. n. The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
  3. n. That which is cut or torn off; a piece.
  4. v. present participle of shred.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
  2. n. That which is cut or torn off; a piece.

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  • “Like Degaussing, physical shredding is typically carried out by external service providers.”

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  • “LEWISTON, Maine (AP) A preacher led a group in shredding copies of Harry Potter books on the eve of the release of the movie “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.””

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  • “Tom Jacobs, MedHQ president, said he called his shredding company (he declined to name it), but no one there claimed responsibility.”

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  • “It will be interesting to see how much back paddling and document shredding occurs when the real investigations begin into Obama's administration after he is booted in 2012.”

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  • “Even before the superdiscounting of couture, Chanel, for one, decided it would rather their clothes meet a more respectable demise – if you can call shredding them respectable.”

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  • “We already had XML data inserted into a SQL Server 2008 R2 database however we were getting below error when retrieving also called shredding values from the XML data.”

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  • “Attorneys for Raffanello and Perraud contend that no crime was committed because the records in question were duplicated in electronic form and that the shredding was a normal part of Stanford's everyday business.”

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  • “Smart companies have policies that require routine shredding, which is mostly legal if done routinely and for a legitimate reason.”

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  • “Authorities say they could not explain the sudden surge in electricity usage, nor ubiquitous sounds that could best be described as the shredding of paper.”

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  • “I'm calling the shredding specialists today and I'll let you know what they charge for a home visit.”

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  • dailyword We used to do this a lot at my dad's office. Sep 15, 2012

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