Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged.
The chattering, irrational brute of the subconscious clothes itself in the tattered garments of rationality and idealism.
Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged.
This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]
Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.
simple past and past participle of tatter
From Middle English tatered, tatird, from Old Norse tǫturr. Originally, it was derived from the noun, but it was later reanalysed as a past participle (tatter + -ed), whereafter the verb came into bei...
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