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Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
Mac DeMarco

Meaning of "shredding" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHREDDING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHREDDING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shredding is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb shredding in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SHREDDING

PRESENT

Present
I shred
you shred
he/she/it shreds
we shred
you shred
they shred
Present continuous
I am shredding
you are shredding
he/she/it is shredding
we are shredding
you are shredding
they are shredding
Present perfect
I have shredded
you have shredded
he/she/it has shredded
we have shredded
you have shredded
they have shredded
Present perfect continuous
I have been shredding
you have been shredding
he/she/it has been shredding
we have been shredding
you have been shredding
they have been shredding
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I shredded
you shredded
he/she/it shredded
we shredded
you shredded
they shredded
Past continuous
I was shredding
you were shredding
he/she/it was shredding
we were shredding
you were shredding
they were shredding
Past perfect
I had shredded
you had shredded
he/she/it had shredded
we had shredded
you had shredded
they had shredded
Past perfect continuous
I had been shredding
you had been shredding
he/she/it had been shredding
we had been shredding
you had been shredding
they had been shredding
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will shred
you will shred
he/she/it will shred
we will shred
you will shred
they will shred
Future continuous
I will be shredding
you will be shredding
he/she/it will be shredding
we will be shredding
you will be shredding
they will be shredding
Future perfect
I will have shredded
you will have shredded
he/she/it will have shredded
we will have shredded
you will have shredded
they will have shredded
Future perfect continuous
I will have been shredding
you will have been shredding
he/she/it will have been shredding
we will have been shredding
you will have been shredding
they will have been shredding
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would shredding
you would shredding
he/she/it would shredding
we would shredding
you would shredding
they would shredding
Conditional continuous
I would be shredding
you would be shredding
he/she/it would be shredding
we would be shredding
you would be shredding
they would be shredding
Conditional perfect
I would have shredding
you would have shredding
he/she/it would have shredding
we would have shredding
you would have shredding
they would have shredding
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been shredding
you would have been shredding
he/she/it would have been shredding
we would have been shredding
you would have been shredding
they would have been shredding
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you shred
we let´s shred
you shred
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to shred
Past participle
shredded
Present Participle
shredding
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHREDDING

shrank
shrapnel
shred
shredded
shredder
shreddy
shredless
Shreveport
shrew
shrew mole
shrewd
shrewdie
shrewdly
shrewdness
shrewish
shrewishly
shrewishness
shrewlike
shrewmice
shrewmouse

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHREDDING

according
adding
bedding
bidding
budding
cladding
competitive bidding
double wedding
embedding
kidding
modding
nodding
padding
pudding
Redding
shedding
sledding
sodding
wedding
white wedding
Yorkshire pudding

Synonyms and antonyms of shredding in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHREDDING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «shredding» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of shredding
atom · bit · cut up · fragment · grain · iota · jot · mince · particle · piece · rag · ribbon · rip up · scrap · sliver · snippet · strip · tatter · trace · whit

Translation of «shredding» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHREDDING

Find out the translation of shredding to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shredding from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shredding» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

粉碎
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trituración
570 millions of speakers

English

shredding
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कतरन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التمزيق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

измельчение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

retalhamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কাটার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déchiquetage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mencarik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schreddern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シュレッ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

파쇄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shredding
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

băm nhỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிதறடிக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कापड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

parçalama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

triturazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozdrabnianie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

подрібнення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

maruntire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τεμαχισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkleining
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fragmentering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

makulering
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shredding

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHREDDING»

The term «shredding» is quite widely used and occupies the 33.773 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHREDDING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «shredding» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «shredding» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shredding

EXAMPLES

2 QUOTES WITH «SHREDDING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shredding.
1
Mac DeMarco
Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
2
Shaun White
If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHREDDING»

Discover the use of shredding in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shredding and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of ...
Kitasono Katue was a leading avant-garde literary figure, first in Japan and then throughout the world, from the 1920s to the 1970s.
John Solt, 1999
2
Shredding Bach: Heavy Metal Guitar Meets 10 J. S. Bach ...
The DVD features German Schauss demonstrating examples from the book. The accompanying CD features all of the examples recorded at multiple speeds to help you practice and to get you on your way to mastering Bach's challenging compositions.
German Schauss, 2012
3
Shredding: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations AccustomingIt is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.ndash;AnonymousNever chain your dogs together with sausages.
‎2008
4
Shredding the Public Interest: Ralph Klein and 25 Years of ...
Alberta had the tightest controls on spending in Canada during the very period when the Klein government has claimed costs were soaring out of control.
Kevin Taft, 1997
5
Shredding Paganini: Heavy Metal Guitar Meets 9 Masterpieces ...
As the follow-up to his best-selling book and DVD, Shredding Bach, master shredder German Schauss covers yet another all-time great musician with this new book, CD, and DVD set, Shredding Paganini.
German Schauss, 2013
6
Computer Modelling Methodology for Shredding of End of Life ...
Yun Xing. US households in 2005 according to the Consumer Electronics Association's 2005 Market Research Report [Consumer Electronics Association 2005]. To protect the environment, these must be processed and recycled rather than ...
Yun Xing, 2007
7
Shredding the social contract: the privatization of medicare
The crisis that's bigger than Social Security.
John P. Geyman, 2006
8
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
The process of preserving cocoanut in a natural moist condition with the original milk, which consists in separating the milk from the kernel, cutting, grating, or shredding the kernel, packing the same in receptacles, heating the milk, introducing ...
‎1917
9
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
In a shredding-machine. the combination, with feeding mechanism for the material, of a revoluble shredding-cylinder, and driving devices operating to reciprocate the said cylinder crosswise of the direction of the feed of the material,  ...
United States. Patent Office, 1907
10
Canadian Patent Office Record
Apparatus for Shredding Leather. Appareil pour couper le cuir en lambeaux. The Fibered Leather Manufacturing Company, Boston, assignee of Otis Moody Cutler, Wakefield, all in Massachusetts, U.S.A., 9th October, 1906 ; 6 years. Filed 14th ...
Canada. Patent Office, 1906

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHREDDING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shredding is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Exam shredding error is setback for probation promotion overhaul
Trial court officials admit they accidentally shredded promotional exams taken by probation officers before they could be graded, dealing a second embarrassing ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
2
These Two Legislators Want To Know Why Veterans' Claims Are In …
In response, the VA claimed that only 10 files were placed in the shredding bin, and further that it was simply an accident devoid of malicious intent, Military ... «Daily Caller, Jul 15»
3
Secure Document Shredding Tour Coming to Oakton
The Fairfax County Solid Waste Management Program is sponsoring one secure document shredding event in each supervisory district per calendar year. «Patch.com, Jul 15»
4
Union County Hosting Mobile Document Shredding Program
If residents are worried about identity theft or have too much clutter, the Union County mobile document shredding program will be available in Clark Township ... «Patch.com, May 15»
5
Thomson: Warning issued to staff busy shredding government …
Since the election, bags of shredded documents have been piling up in the hallways of ... Over the years, we have seen the invasion of the industrial shredding ... «Edmonton Journal, May 15»
6
Alberta opposition concerned about document shredding
He said the move may help to freeze any future shredding, but admitted many ... on the shredding, the destruction of records is a common activity in government. «Edmonton Journal, May 15»
7
Comerica offers free shredding of documents
Bring them to Comerica Bank's fifth annual Shred Day on Saturday, May 16, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Comerica Service Center, 1508 W. Mockingbird Lane in ... «Dallas Morning News, May 15»
8
Experts recommend shredding documents used to prepare taxes
WICHITA, Kan.--- The Better Business Bureau recommends using a shredder to properly discard of documents used for the preparation of tax returns. «KAKE, Apr 15»
9
Upcoming Document Shredding, Recycling Events in Union County
The Union County Freeholder Board is sponsoring several upcoming events, enabling resident to shred personal documents, dispose of household chemical or ... «Patch.com, Apr 15»
10
Adam Weitsman of Upstate Shredding Proposes to Acquire Metalico …
OWEGO, N.Y., Feb. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Adam Weitsman of Upstate Shredding, LLC ("Upstate Shredding"), the East Coast's largest privately owned scrap ... «PR Newswire, Feb 15»

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