in tatters

US pronunciation

American soundin tatters

intatters

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

in - tatters -> in tatters

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

tatters /'tætǝz/ n

[pl ] အစုတ်အပြဲ။ အစုတ်အပြတ်။ His clothes hung in tatters.
❏ in tatters [IDM ] စုတ်ပြတ်သတ်သွားအောင်။ အစုတ်စုတ် အပြတ်ပြတ်။ The court case left his reputation/life/career in tatters. ❍ Government policy is in tatters. v

More examples

‘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.’
‘His clothes were completely ruined, no more than tatters.’
‘He designs his costume, most often resorting to rags and tatters.’
‘Scraps and tatters of the past whirled in my head.’
‘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.’
‘A crowd that clutched parcels of packaged joy had gathered around a joyless, shoeless vagrant who was dressed in newspaper-stuffed tatters.’
‘There were photographs stuck to the stone wall, packages with letters, coins, tatters of cloth.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘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?’
‘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.’
‘Other times I want to jump up and down on them until they are in shreds and tatters, cursing the preciosity of it all.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘Jonathan Crane, wearing the rags and tatters of his Scarecrow costume, without his mask, is relaxing on a couch, feet up on an endtable.’
‘The few shreds and tatters of pre-1960s culture, I suppose.’
‘How can one say that contemporary theories of Egyptian archeologically based history are nothing more than notions derived from a few rags & tatters?’
‘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.’

Synonyms

Sunday best, accouterment, annoy, apparel, array, atom, attire, banter, become ragged, become threadbare, bit, bits, breach, break, cantlet, caparison, chafe, chink, civvies, cleavage, cloth, clothes, come apart, costume, covering, crack, crumb, cut, damage, discord, dishrag, dissension, division, drag, drapery, dress, duds, dustcloth, ensemble, equipment, erode, faction, feathers, finery, fissure, flaw, flitter, fracture, fragment, fray, frazzle, fret, frippery, frock, full feather, garb, garments, gash, gear, get-up, glad rags, grain, habiliment, habit, hand-me-downs, harass, hole, imperfection, iota, jive, joke, josh, jot, kid, laceration, livery, make ragged, mock, modicum, mufti, mutilation, needle, opening, ounce, outfit, overclothes, panoply, part, particle, patch, perforation, personal attire, pieces, rag, rags, raiment, ravel, ray, razz, reduce, regalia, remnant, rent, rib, ribbon, rift, rigging, rip, rub, ruins, run, rupture, sack, schism, scintilla, scold, scrap, scraps, scratch, shadow, shave, shred, shreds, slash, slit, sliver, smidgen, snippet, speck, split, sportswear, stitch, strip, strips, tailleur, tatter, tear, tease, things, threads, tiny piece, tog, toggery, togs, tout ensemble, trace, trappings, trousseau, underclothes, unravel, vestment, vesture, vines, wardrobe, wear, wear away, wear thin, weeds, whit, wiper

Antonyms

agreement, closed, closing, closure, connection, harmony, juncture, lot, mend, peace, perfection, please, purchase, sew, unity, whole