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Meanings of tattered in English

Worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing.

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Ruined or disrupted.

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(For clothes) Damaged, with holes, as a consequence of being worn intensively.

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Examples for "ragged"
Examples for "ragged"
1
I still got years left in me,' he said, between ragged breaths.
Empire in black and gold
2
Movement was often ragged, however, and initial interesting lighting was not sustained.
The Irish Times
3
The sunlight danced in gleams through the holes in the ragged roof.
The Young Forester
4
Marianne Lambert has been run ragged by Virgin Media in recent months.
The Irish Times
5
When she spoke at last, her voice was ragged, soft, yet certain.
Night tides
Usage of tattered in English
1
The holiday decorations, no matter how tattered, still went up every year.
Discord's apple
2
The gnawed and tattered holes in the bag told their own story.
Army Boys in the French Trenches; Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with...
3
I was already pretty tattered from what had been a tough year.
News.com.au
4
The tattered remnants of the Spanish Arch barely do its history justice.
The Irish Times
5
Tempest was in the tattered and dirty finery of a seventeenth-century courtier.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
6
The child on the floor is beautiful, even in her tattered clothes.
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
7
She parades her duty before me in the most tattered of rags.
The Lost Naval Papers
8
I declined the offer as the tattered one better fit my image.
A nameless witch
9
Some children dressed in tattered brocades played at quoits on the outskirts.
Candide
10
I let go, and the tattered flap fell against the table top.
After midnight
11
My resolve is being held by a tattered string ready to snap.
I am number four
12
The servants saw her tattered finery and brought her to Master Hornpull.
The poison eaters: and other stories
13
The tattered flag on the pole above stirred to an awakening breeze.
Where the Sun Swings North
14
Gwen pushed forward the tattered cards she had retrieved from the river.
Pack animals
15
Nothing could be done to get in any of our tattered canvas.
Hurricane Hurry
16
The trees round it are much tattered and torn by English shell.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Tattered through the time
Tattered across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
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