Tattered Definition

tătərd
adjective
In tatters; torn and ragged.
Webster's New World
Wearing torn and ragged clothes.
Webster's New World
Shabby or dilapidated.
American Heritage
Disordered or disrupted.
American Heritage
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verb
Simple past tense and past participle of tatter.
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Origin of Tattered

  • From Middle English tatered, tatird, from Old Norse. Originally, it was derived from the noun, but it was later it reanalysed as a past participle, (tatter +"Ž -ed), whereafter the verb came into being. Compare tatter.

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Tattered Sentence Examples

  • Martha lugged out a tattered game of Monopoly.

  • I don't want you running around in tattered clothes.

  • She was dressed in a tattered coat, hands in her lap, sitting as nervously as an immigrant awaiting deportation.

  • Beside him rode an hussar, with a boy in a tattered French uniform and blue cap behind him on the crupper of his horse.

  • Cynthia Dean kept pushing away all other thoughts from his tattered mind.

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