Dictionary Entry

tattered

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ˈtætəd/Used In Literature ↓

To destroy an article of clothing etc. by shredding.

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Common Phrases

clothes tatteredgarments tattered. tatteredclothing tatteredremnants tatteredold tatteredtattered old

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Poetry examples for “tattered”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Lift this little book,
Turn the tattered pages,
Read me, do not let me die!

And the door opened. To the shining crowd
Tattered and dark I entered, like a cloud,
Seeing no face but his; to him I crept,

When we sat upon the granite brink in Helicon
Clothed in the tattered sunlight,
O Muses with delicate shins,

I put my trumpet, with its stress and noise
Fly the white clouds like tattered sails of ships;
The tree-tops lash the air with sounding whips;

Where the real effigy of midnight hags.
With tawny smoked flesh and tattered rags.
Uncouth-brimmed hat, and weather-beaten cloak,

There was a tattered man, fouled with dust, blood and
powder stain from hair to shoes, who trudged quietly at the

The youth fell back in the procession until the tattered soldier
was not in sight. Then he started to walk on with the others.

jouncing guns of the battery. He was startled from this view by a
shrill outcry from the tattered man.

The body seemed to bounce a little way from the earth.
“God!” said the tattered soldier.

against the sky--indifferent to
light withdrawing its tattered shreds,
worn out with embraces. It's