Shred vs Destroy - What's the difference?
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A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
* Francis Bacon
In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.
To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.
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(obsolete) To lop; to prune; to trim.
(snowboarding) To ride aggressively.
(bodybuilding) To drop fat and water weight before a competition.
(music, slang) To play very fast (especially guitar solos in rock and metal genres).
To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
As verbs the difference between shred and destroy
is that shred is to cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips while destroy isto damage beyond use or repair
. As a noun shred
is a long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.shred
English
(wikipedia shred)Noun
(en noun)- shreds of tanned leather
- There isn't a shred of evidence to support his claims.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* See also .Verb
- (Chaucer)
Derived terms
* shredderReferences
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English
Verb
To damage beyond use or repair.
- The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.
- ''Hooligans destroy unprovoked
- ''Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate
- Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
- The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.