Shred vs Pulverise - 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 completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
To defeat soundly, thrash.
To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
As verbs the difference between shred and pulverise
is that shred is to cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips while pulverise is to completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.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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*pulverise
English
Alternative forms
* pulverizeVerb
(en-verb)- the stone pulverises easily
