tattered

Word family

TEARclothes, books etc that are tattered are old and torn 〔衣服、书等〕破旧的，破烂的

He produced a tattered envelope from his pocket.

他从口袋里掏出一个破烂的信封。

Examples from the Corpus

tattered• The old diary was yellowed and tattered.• We sat on the ground on a filthy piece of cloth beside a clump of tattered belongings.• The shirt was now tattered beyond recognition.• A man in tattered blue dungarees was busy in the garage.• She stared in horror at the whitened, frozen cadavers which lay there under a tattered, canvas sheet.• An old woman in tattered clothes walked down the street pushing a dilapidated pram.• The old man clutched a tattered copy of "War and Peace."• A guy in tattered cut-offs and garish sport shirt stands on a rock, brandishing a sword above his head.• They hung on him loosely, like a tattered dress.• She was poorly dressed in a tattered knit sweater.• Dollarisation was the last card in ex-president Jamil Mahuad's tattered pack of policies.• Russo says many clients still bound into his styling chair clutching tattered pictures of Claudia Schiffer.• He dressed like a willful teenager, favoring jeans so tattered you could see his boxer shorts through them.

Chinese

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Corpus

BNC: 15650 COCA: 10444

tattered

Broken, torn or damaged: broken, battered, faulty...