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as in ragged
wearing torn or worn-out clothes
arrived at the shelter tattered and exhausted
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as in faded
worn or torn into or as if into rags
a hobo in tattered old clothes and worn-out shoes
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as in ripped
to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it
the little boy tattered that blanket beyond repair by repeatedly yanking on it
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Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
Two hours after the attack, Abu Awad sat on a tattered couch outside the building where Judeh lived in Turmus Ayya.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2024
Tucked inside was a tattered photo of me, a snaggletoothed first-grader at Church Street Elementary School in Tupelo, Miss.
—Minrose Gwin, New York Times, 18 May 2024
All critics and jeering old folks need is a platform (cable TV, Instagram, a tattered soap box) to discredit the movement as the performative act of feckless snowflakes and spoiled children.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
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Amalie fell asleep with the tattered edge of her old security blanket gripped in her hand.
—Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
Two hours after the attack, Abu Awad sat on a tattered couch outside the building where Judeh lived in Turmus Ayya.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2024
Tucked inside was a tattered photo of me, a snaggletoothed first-grader at Church Street Elementary School in Tupelo, Miss.
—Minrose Gwin, New York Times, 18 May 2024
All critics and jeering old folks need is a platform (cable TV, Instagram, a tattered soap box) to discredit the movement as the performative act of feckless snowflakes and spoiled children.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
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“Tattered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tattered. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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