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Definition of Tattered
1. Adjective. Worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing. "A tatterdemalion prince"
2. Adjective. Ruined or disrupted. "My torn and tattered past"
Definition of Tattered
1. Adjective. rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged ¹
2. Adjective. dressed in tatters or rags; ragged ¹
3. Adjective. (obsolete) dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken ¹
4. Verb. (past of tatter) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tattered
1. tatter [v] - See also: tatter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tattered
Literary usage of Tattered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"admired their tattered garments, loud psalmody, and artificial paleness.32 A
small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, ..."
2. Life of Matthew Hale Carpenter: A View of the Honors and Achievements That by Frank Abial Flower (1883)
"THE BROKEN, tattered CONSTITUTION. There was hardly a day passed in which Carpenter
did not hold up before the senate the constitution, ..."
3. In Darkest Africa: Or, The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... wife—Monkeys and other animals in the forest —The clearing of Andaki—Our
tattered clothes—The Ihuru River— Scarcity of food ..."
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