| Main Entry: | shred |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut into ribbons |
Synonyms: |
cut, fray, frazzle, make ragged, reduce, shave, sliver, strip, tatter, tear |
Antonyms: |
mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | broken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destroyed; made into pieces from a whole |
Synonyms: |
burst, busted, collapsed, cracked, crippled, crumbled, crushed, damaged, defective, demolished, disintegrated, dismembered, fractured, fragmentary, fragmented, hurt, in pieces, injured, mangled, mutilated, pulverized, rent, riven, ruptured, separated, severed, shattered, shivered, shredded, slivered, smashed, split |
Antonyms: |
complete, connected, fixed, ok, unbroken, whole |
| Main Entry: | frazzle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wear out |
Synonyms: |
exhaust, fray, knock out, poop, prostrate, rip, shred, tear, tire, tucker, wear |
Antonyms: |
maintain, preserve |
| Main Entry: | ragged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn-out; in shreds |
Synonyms: |
badly dressed, badly worn, battered, broken, contemptible, crude, desultory, dilapidated, dingy, disorganized, down at the heel, fragmented, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, in holes, in rags, in tatters, irregular, jagged, mean, moth-eaten, notched, patched, poor, poorly made, rent, rough, rugged, scraggy, seedy, serrated, shabby, shaggy, shoddy, shredded, tacky*, tattered, tatty, threadbare, torn, uneven, unfinished, unkempt, unpressed, worse for wear |
Antonyms: |
even, kempt, new, smooth |
| Main Entry: | rip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tear, cut |
Synonyms: |
burst, claw, cleave, fray, frazzle, gash, hack, lacerate, rend, rive, score, shred, slash, slit, split |
Antonyms: |
close, sew |
| Main Entry: | shave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut outer covering off |
Synonyms: |
barber, brush, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, decorticate, graze, kiss, make bare, pare, peel, plane, prune, shear, shingle, shred, skim, skin, slash, slice thin, sliver, strip, touch, trim |
| Main Entry: | slice |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut into portions, shares |
Synonyms: |
carve, chiv, cleave, dissect, dissever, divide, gash, hack, incise, pierce, segment, sever, shave, shred, slash, slit, split, strip, subdivide, sunder |
Antonyms: |
combine, unite |
| Main Entry: | tear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, rip an object |
Synonyms: |
break, claw, cleave, crack, damage, divide, evulse, extract, fray, frazzle, gash, grab, impair, incise, injure, jigsaw, lacerate, mangle, mutilate, pluck, pull, pull apart, rend, ribbon, rift, rive, run, rupture, scratch, seize, separate, sever, shred, slash, slit, snatch, split, sunder, wrench, wrest, yank |
Antonyms: |
fix, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | snip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut |
Synonyms: |
clip, shear, shorten, shred, trim |
| Main Entry: | rive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tear |
Synonyms: |
break*, claw, cleave, crack*, damage, divide, evulse, extract, fray, frazzle, gash, grab*, impair, incise, injure, lacerate, mangle, mutilate, pluck, pull, pull apart, rend, ribbon, rift, rip, run, rupture, scratch, seize, separate, sever, shred, slash, slit, snatch, split, sunder, wrench, wrest, yank |