Synonyms of the word

shred

• n. A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
• n. In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.
• v. To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To lop; to prune; to trim.
• v. (snowboarding) To ride aggressively.
• v. (bodybuilding) To drop fat and water weight before a competition.
• v. (music, slang) To play very fast (especially guitar solos in rock and metal genres).

bust

• n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
• n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
• v. To break something.
• v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
• v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
• v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
• v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
• v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
• v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
• n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
• n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
• n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
• n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
• adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

iota

• n. The ninth, and smallest, letter of the Greek alphabet.
• n. A jot; a very small, inconsiderable quantity.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rupture

• n. A burst, split, or break.
• n. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
• n. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
• n. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

scintilla

• n. A small spark or flash.
• n. A small or trace amount.

smidge

• n. Alternative form of smidgen.

smidgen

• n. A very small quantity or amount.

smidgeon

• n. Alternative form of smidgen.

smidgin

• n. Alternative form of smidgen.

snap

• n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
• n. A sudden break.
• n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
• n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
• n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
• n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
• n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
• n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
• n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
• n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
• n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
• n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
• n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
• n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
• n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
• n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
• n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
• n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
• n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
• n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
• n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
• n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
• n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
• n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
• n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
• v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
• v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
• v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
• v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
• v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
• v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
• v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
• v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
• v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
• v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
• v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
• v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
• v. To misfire.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
• interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
• interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
• interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
• interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
• interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
• adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.

tag

• n. A small label.
• n. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the…
• n. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
• n. A type of cardboard.
• n. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
• n. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
• n. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").
• n. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
• n. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
• n. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
• n. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information…
• n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
• n. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
• n. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
• n. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
• n. A sheep in its first year.
• n. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify,…
• n. (slang) A person's name.
• v. (transitive) To label (something).
• v. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
• v. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
• v. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
• v. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
• v. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
• v. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
• v. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
• v. To fasten; to attach.
• n. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

tatter

• n. A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.
• n. A person engaged in tatting.
• v. To destroy an article of clothing by shredding.

tear

• v. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether…
• v. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
• v. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
• v. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
• v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
• v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
• v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
• v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
• n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
• n. (slang) A rampage.
• n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
• n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop,…
• n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
• n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
• v. (intransitive) To produce tears.

tittle

• n. A small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.
• n. (typography) Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like…

whit

• n. The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.