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Definition of tatters in English: tattersplural nounˈtatəzˈtædərz Irregularly torn pieces of cloth, paper, or other material. he was forced to wear rags and tatters a beggar would scorn Example sentencesExamples - He designs his costume, most often resorting to rags and tatters.
- Song fragments and electronic tatters abound on this album, and at the moments you put out your hand to their allure, Maricich snaps them back with a smirk.
- It had certainly seen better days, for now sky could be seen through a large gap in one area of the ceiling and the several colourful tapestries adorning the walls were now no more than tatters.
- Scraps and tatters of the past whirled in my head.
- There were photographs stuck to the stone wall, packages with letters, coins, tatters of cloth.
- And finally, we found the chamber in which she was kept, spread-eagled against one wall, dressed in rags and tatters of her once-magnificent gown.
- There were blackened corpses and skeletons scattered among the rocks and wood; just bone, metal, and tatters of rotting flesh rejected or missed by scavengers.
- Other times I want to jump up and down on them until they are in shreds and tatters, cursing the preciosity of it all.
- How can one say that contemporary theories of Egyptian archeologically based history are nothing more than notions derived from a few rags & tatters?
- Just as some people, apparently servants in rags and tatters, served dinner.
- Yesterday I bought new shoes, and told the clerk I needed something that would stand up to a great dealing walking the next day without shredding my heel into red tatters.
- A crowd that clutched parcels of packaged joy had gathered around a joyless, shoeless vagrant who was dressed in newspaper-stuffed tatters.
- About half a mile from the Desolate Borough's walls, the city dumped the by-products of dyes, tatters of textiles, and every other waste that had no use for.
- I twirled the leaf around in my fingers: dry, yellow and brown and brittle, tatters of desiccated material around a skeleton of veins.
- His clothes were completely ruined, no more than tatters.
- A few bits of bone and tatters of cloth were all that remained of Orhandia.
- How many pairs of boots did Carlyon tear to tatters in his researches?
- Jonathan Crane, wearing the rags and tatters of his Scarecrow costume, without his mask, is relaxing on a couch, feet up on an endtable.
- They never would have suspected a spy of any sorts the only person there was an old man from the looks of it sitting in a corner covered from head to foot in old rags and tatters.
- The few shreds and tatters of pre-1960s culture, I suppose.
Synonyms rags, scraps, shreds, bits, pieces, bits and pieces, torn pieces, ragged pieces, ribbons, clippings, fragments
Phrases 1Torn in many places; in shreds. wallpaper hung in tatters Example sentencesExamples - Sporting a brave front, he put on his battle gear: a worn-out helmet, its straps in tatters.
- One passing eyewitness saw the youths swinging from shop front lettering in the small hours, lettering which now hangs in tatters.
- A grey-bearded Ecuadorian tramp shuffled past, scooping himself a cup of water out of the central fountain, his trousers in tatters around him.
- They can't just leave it in tatters on the floor.
- And half of the flowers were in tatters, torn by the frenzy of legs and wings.
- He dragged her from the bedroom and, after she fled downstairs, the attack continued until he eventually pushed her out of the house bare foot and with her clothes in tatters.
- Her sleeves were in tatters, the worn cotton having merely given way to greater force.
Synonyms ragged, torn, ripped, frayed, split, tattered, in shreds, in bits, in pieces, worn down, worn out, worn to shreds, moth-eaten, falling to pieces, threadbare - 1.1Destroyed; ruined.
the ceasefire was in tatters within hours Example sentencesExamples - With the school's championship finals looming and Jimmy's confidence in tatters once more, his dreams of being spotted by a City talent scout look distant.
- Hence Europe at war's end was in tatters, Britain was virtually bankrupt, Germany destroyed, and Japan on its knees.
- Yet within a few years, John's reputation was in tatters.
- He said his plans to stand as a councillor and start a political career were in tatters because he had been branded a ‘criminal who misuses firearms’.
- The country was carved up among rival militia, the economy was in ruins and the social fabric in tatters.
- For fifty years there was no economic progression and by the time that Latvia broke free from the Soviet Union in 1991 its economy was in tatters.
- It was argued that business would be destroyed and the town's economic future would be in tatters.
- By July, the dream of a smokeless bar was in tatters.
- The chariots will carry England home, but not in the fashion they expected - instead with dreams of their twelfth Grand Slam in tatters.
- Our alliances around the world with other countries that we rely on to help us have been shredded and left in tatters around the globe.
Synonyms ruined, in ruins, on the rocks, destroyed, finished, shattered, demolished, devastated, in disarray
Derivatives adjective They're fighting because Miss Martian decided to take Batgirl's cowl/cape and make her a new one because it's all tattery. Example sentencesExamples - I can fill holes no bother, its the mess the walls are in after scraping. layers of cardboard stuff is coming off with the paper leaving tattery bits all over the shot.
- I rolled out of my tattery quilt and peeked out.
- Did think about comandeering the cruise boat but it was rather cold and I didn't think I would be too successful in a tattery silk dress and stilettos!
- I found myself thinking about that thing long after I read the piece, tattery black plastic and metal bits.
Origin Late Middle English (also in the singular meaning 'scrap of cloth'): from Old Norse tǫtrar 'rags'. Definition of tatters in US English: tattersplural nounˈtadərzˈtædərz Irregularly torn pieces of cloth, paper, or other material. Example sentencesExamples - Scraps and tatters of the past whirled in my head.
- I twirled the leaf around in my fingers: dry, yellow and brown and brittle, tatters of desiccated material around a skeleton of veins.
- A few bits of bone and tatters of cloth were all that remained of Orhandia.
- A crowd that clutched parcels of packaged joy had gathered around a joyless, shoeless vagrant who was dressed in newspaper-stuffed tatters.
- Jonathan Crane, wearing the rags and tatters of his Scarecrow costume, without his mask, is relaxing on a couch, feet up on an endtable.
- Song fragments and electronic tatters abound on this album, and at the moments you put out your hand to their allure, Maricich snaps them back with a smirk.
- It had certainly seen better days, for now sky could be seen through a large gap in one area of the ceiling and the several colourful tapestries adorning the walls were now no more than tatters.
- There were blackened corpses and skeletons scattered among the rocks and wood; just bone, metal, and tatters of rotting flesh rejected or missed by scavengers.
- They never would have suspected a spy of any sorts the only person there was an old man from the looks of it sitting in a corner covered from head to foot in old rags and tatters.
- There were photographs stuck to the stone wall, packages with letters, coins, tatters of cloth.
- He designs his costume, most often resorting to rags and tatters.
- Just as some people, apparently servants in rags and tatters, served dinner.
- How many pairs of boots did Carlyon tear to tatters in his researches?
- The few shreds and tatters of pre-1960s culture, I suppose.
- And finally, we found the chamber in which she was kept, spread-eagled against one wall, dressed in rags and tatters of her once-magnificent gown.
- How can one say that contemporary theories of Egyptian archeologically based history are nothing more than notions derived from a few rags & tatters?
- Yesterday I bought new shoes, and told the clerk I needed something that would stand up to a great dealing walking the next day without shredding my heel into red tatters.
- About half a mile from the Desolate Borough's walls, the city dumped the by-products of dyes, tatters of textiles, and every other waste that had no use for.
- His clothes were completely ruined, no more than tatters.
- Other times I want to jump up and down on them until they are in shreds and tatters, cursing the preciosity of it all.
Synonyms rags, scraps, shreds, bits, pieces, bits and pieces, torn pieces, ragged pieces, ribbons, clippings, fragments
Phrases 1Torn in many places; in shreds. wallpaper hung in tatters Example sentencesExamples - Her sleeves were in tatters, the worn cotton having merely given way to greater force.
- One passing eyewitness saw the youths swinging from shop front lettering in the small hours, lettering which now hangs in tatters.
- He dragged her from the bedroom and, after she fled downstairs, the attack continued until he eventually pushed her out of the house bare foot and with her clothes in tatters.
- Sporting a brave front, he put on his battle gear: a worn-out helmet, its straps in tatters.
- A grey-bearded Ecuadorian tramp shuffled past, scooping himself a cup of water out of the central fountain, his trousers in tatters around him.
- And half of the flowers were in tatters, torn by the frenzy of legs and wings.
- They can't just leave it in tatters on the floor.
Synonyms ragged, torn, ripped, frayed, split, tattered, in shreds, in bits, in pieces, worn down, worn out, worn to shreds, moth-eaten, falling to pieces, threadbare - 1.1Destroyed; ruined.
the ceasefire was in tatters within hours Example sentencesExamples - By July, the dream of a smokeless bar was in tatters.
- Hence Europe at war's end was in tatters, Britain was virtually bankrupt, Germany destroyed, and Japan on its knees.
- With the school's championship finals looming and Jimmy's confidence in tatters once more, his dreams of being spotted by a City talent scout look distant.
- Yet within a few years, John's reputation was in tatters.
- It was argued that business would be destroyed and the town's economic future would be in tatters.
- For fifty years there was no economic progression and by the time that Latvia broke free from the Soviet Union in 1991 its economy was in tatters.
- Our alliances around the world with other countries that we rely on to help us have been shredded and left in tatters around the globe.
- The country was carved up among rival militia, the economy was in ruins and the social fabric in tatters.
- The chariots will carry England home, but not in the fashion they expected - instead with dreams of their twelfth Grand Slam in tatters.
- He said his plans to stand as a councillor and start a political career were in tatters because he had been branded a ‘criminal who misuses firearms’.
Synonyms ruined, in ruins, on the rocks, destroyed, finished, shattered, demolished, devastated, in disarray
Origin Late Middle English (also in the singular meaning ‘scrap of cloth’): from Old Norse tǫtrar ‘rags’. |