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Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged. quotations examples
The chattering, irrational brute of the subconscious clothes itself in the tattered garments of rationality and idealism.
1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged. quotations examples
This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]
1784, The House that Jack Built, page 8
The tattered man waved his hand.
1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, page 101
(obsolete) Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.
simple past and past participle of tatter examples