Tattered
['tætəd] or ['tætɚd]
Definition
(adj.) worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; 'a man in a tattered shirt'; 'the tattered flag'; 'tied up in tattered brown paper'; 'a tattered barefoot boy'; 'a tatterdemalion prince' .
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Definition
(p. p.) of Tatter
Typist: Preston
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Torn, ragged.
Checker: Peggy
Examples
- He stooped a little, and with his tattered blue cap pointed under the carriage. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- My tattered dress was that in which I had crawled half alive from the tempestuous sea. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his tattered coat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Nothing had come of it; and, as I tell you, she died with the scrap of paper, all worn and tattered, in her hand. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather ruefully. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Peggy