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English Dictionary: Tattered by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tattered
adj
  1. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"
    Synonym(s): tattered, tatterdemalion
  2. ruined or disrupted; "our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity"; "a tattered remnant of its former strength"; "my torn and tattered past"
    Synonym(s): shattered, tattered
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tatter \Tat"ter\, v. t. [p. p. {Tattered}.]
      To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past
      participle as an adjective.
  
               Where waved the tattered ensigns of Ragfair. --Pope.
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