Ripped vs Tattered - What's the difference?
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(rip)
Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.
Pulled away from forcefully.
In data storage, transferred to a hard disk from another portable media form.
Copied or stolen usually from an identified source.
(bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles.
* 1988', Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", '''' ' 47 (6): 28-34.
* 2010', Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", ''Reps!'' ' 17 :106
(slang) Drunk, inebriated.
rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged
* 1919 , :
dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
(obsolete) dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken
(tatter)
As verbs the difference between ripped and tattered
is that ripped is past tense of rip while tattered is past tense of tatter.As adjectives the difference between ripped and tattered
is that ripped is torn, either partly or into separate pieces while tattered is rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged.ripped
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- With the average male competitor weighing around 220, the total poundage of raw, ripped mass in the preliminary lineup is over 3,700 pounds.
- That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
Synonyms
* (torn) torn * (having low bodyfat) chiseled, cut, shredded * (drunk) SeeAnagrams
*tattered
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Alternative forms
* totteredAdjective
(-)- The chattering, irrational brute of the subconscious clothes itself in the tattered garments of rationality and idealism.