| 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: | 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: | 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 |