| 单词 | tattered |
| 释义 | tattered (once / 1636 pages) adj If something's tattered, it's worn ragged. You'll understand tattered if your dress has been dragging under your car for the last 100 miles. It will be a tattered mess. Tattered often applies to clothes. If you're a nice guy, you might give your coat to the homeless man with the coat that's so tattered it's threadbare and see-through. You can also use tattered figuratively, for something that's in shambles, like the tattered reputation you would have if you embezzled from your grandmother. The word tattered comes from Middle English, from a time when people wore clothing with decorative slashes, and apparently tatter originally meant "a scrap of cloth." WORD FAMILYtattered USAGE EXAMPLESTattered sheets and underwear were flapping on a clothesline a few feet from his patio tables. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Over the decades, many of the animal and human figures became tattered, faded or broken. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) His small apartment in an East Harlem walk-up is filled with tattered pictures of Che Guevara and Castro. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) 1adj 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 Syn tatterdemalion worn affected by wear; damaged by long use 2adj ruined or disrupted a tattered remnant of its former strength my torn and tattered past Syn shattered destroyed spoiled or ruined or demolished |
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