SHREDDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shredded mean? 

• SHREDDED (adjective)
  The adjective SHREDDED has 1 sense:

1. prepared by cutting

  Familiarity information: SHREDDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHREDDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepared by cutting

Synonyms:

chopped; shredded; sliced

Context example:

shredded cabbage

Similar:

cut (separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument)

 Context examples 

Researchers think the shredded star was a white dwarf - a hot, roughly Earth-sized stellar remnant marking the final state of stars like our Sun.

(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)

I thought it might have become shredded in the post office machinery due to the very thin paper of the envelope she had sent me with her address on it.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A case of cartridges had been shattered into matchwood, and one of the brass shells lay shredded into pieces beside it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw the smoke banks on that October evening swirl slowly up over the Atlantic swell, and rise, and rise, until they had shredded into thinnest air, and lost themselves in the infinite blue of heaven.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)