tatter
破烂,碎片,碎布条,破烂不堪
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Definitions
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- : a torn piece hanging loose from the main part, as of a garment or flag.
- : a separate torn piece; shred.
- : tatters, torn or ragged clothing: dressed in rags and tatters.
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- : to tear or wear to tatters.
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- : to become ragged.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Though most of the Spaniards survived the attack, they retreated west, the expedition in tatters.
Pong becomes a hero to Tiller, who is running, perhaps, from the sad tatters of his family life, which has been defined by his mother’s inexplicable and abrupt abandonment of him and his father.
More often than not, James has been able to turn the corner on Robinson or Herro and get downhill with zero bodies in his path, time his own pull-up three or even split the defense and leave it in tatters.
They were weary, ragged, lean—seven very tatter-demalions—and the front man led them, tapping the ground with a long stick.
Only here and there toward its lower rim a tatter in it revealed the giant's rugged brown muscle of volcanic rock.
You go round by Tatter Brook, says he, an climb the hill from behind.
Now quite unexpectedly we saw the "tatter of scarlet" from a new angle.
A lump of beeswax, with a tatter of an old handkerchief run through it, makes a candle on an emergency.