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Tore into little pieces
Answer for the clue "Tore into little pieces ", 8 letters:
shredded
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: scintilla , whit , iota , tittle , smidgen , smidgeon , smidgin , smidge ] a small piece of cloth or paper [syn: rag , tag , tag end , tatter ] v. tear into shreds [syn: tear up , rip up ] [also: shredding , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, past participle adjective from shred (v.). Shredded wheat is recorded from 1885.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shred \Shred\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shred or Shredded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shredding .] [OE. shreden, schreden, AS. scre['a]dian; akin to OD. schrooden, OHG. scr?tan, G. schroten. See Shred , n.] To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 cut or torn into narrow pieces 2 (context bodybuilding English): Having extreme muscular definition. v (en-past of: shred)
Usage examples of shredded.
Barcoding burns off with the skin, dog tags melt or get inconveniently shredded by shrapnel.
He felt as if he had been shredded, but he was in too much pain to be able to tell which was hurting worse, the knowledge that he was losing her or that he had fathered a baby who was also lost to him.
He forced the pain out of his mind as his teeth shredded the threads, and he hastily tore the garment up to the waistband, where the reinforced fabric and double-stitching stopped his progress.
They lay flat on the floor with their heads covered while the walls were shredded by bullets.
Her nerves had been shredded since that morning, and this confrontation was only making them worse.
After a quick look around assured her that there were no cars on the road, she swiftly reached under her skirt and peeled off her shredded panty hose.
She felt shredded inside, and the pain was so new and raw that she simply couldn't face anyone.
Medina had shredded the two, all the while whispering to them in their own language, so that they would have no doubts about what was happening and why.
It would have shredded her ego if de Wynter had been able to think of a workable solution when she hadn't been able to come up with even an unworkable one.
It shredded his legs to the knee in the time it took me to lower the smart guns halfway to the horizontal.
The wisdom of the ages shredded at a stroke into the pipe-cooked musings of a bunch of canal-dive barflies.
Schneider's voice shrilled to an abrupt scream as the interface gun blew a hole through his hand and turned the can he was still holding into shredded metal.
None of the shredded and shattered tissue was any more solid than the stuff dripping off Luc Deprez.
Hand's incantation shredded apart in a scream and he rolled into a foetal ball.
Neurachem-aided vision showed it to me, let me watch them turned from men and women into shredded carcasses fountaining blood from a thousand entry and exit wounds and then into bursting clouds of shattered tissue.