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[ adjective ] worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing

Examples

"a man in a tattered shirt" "the tattered flag" "tied up in tattered brown paper" "a tattered barefoot boy" "a tatterdemalion prince"

Used in print

(Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)

Behind them shambled a long column of weak , tattered men .

Related terms

worn

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[ adjective ] worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing

Synonyms

tatterdemalion

Examples

"a man in a tattered shirt" "the tattered flag" "tied up in tattered brown paper" "a tattered barefoot boy" "a tatterdemalion prince"

Related terms

worn

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[ adjective ] ruined or disrupted

Synonyms

shattered

Examples

"our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity" "a tattered remnant of its former strength" "my torn and tattered past"

Related terms

destroyed

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Rhymes with

battered uttered spattered shattered bastard watered altered tutored shuttered mastered scattered splattered petard plastered custard bustard mustard mustered cluttered fostered chartered clustered flustered fettered neutered littered lettered unaltered uncluttered unchartered pestered stirred centered sheltered cloistered blistered unfettered splintered registered sequestered undeterred unregistered interred

Phonetic and Homophones

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