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adjective satellite (s)

• worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing(adj.all)

  Example:
  A man in a tattered shirt.
  The tattered flag.
  Tied up in tattered brown paper.
  A tattered barefoot boy.
  

  Synonym:
  tatterdemalion
  

  source: wordnet30
• ruined or disrupted(adj.all)

  Example:
  A tattered remnant of its former strength.
  My torn and tattered past.
  

  Synonym:
  shattered
  

  source: wordnet30