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