torn to pieces

ADJECTIVE

raggedy

Synonyms

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn battered broken dilapidated frayed frazzled full of holes in rags in shreds in tatters moth-eaten poorly made ragged ripped rugged scraggy seedy shabby shaggy shoddy tatterdemalion threadbare torn unkempt

ADJECTIVE

tatterdemalion

Synonyms

STRONG

shoddy

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn battered broken dilapidated frayed frazzled full of holes in rags in shreds in tatters moth-eaten poorly made ragged raggedy ripped rugged scraggy seedy shabby shaggy threadbare torn unkempt

ADJECTIVE

tattered

Synonyms

STRONGEST

battered dilapidated frayed ripped shabby threadbare torn

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn broken frazzled full of holes in rags in shreds in tatters moth-eaten poorly made rugged scraggy seedy shaggy shoddy unkempt

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All my unopened Pop! bobbleheads have been discovered by my kids, their packaging torn to pieces and heads ripped off.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2024

Wynne High School was badly damaged, with some buildings torn to pieces.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2023

In the myth, Venus fell in love with Adonis before he was torn to pieces by a wild boar.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

Real dinosaur fossils look less like that T. rex skeleton in Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain and more like a dinosaur skeleton building set a child has torn to pieces and scattered.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2022

The wood vanishes, it is pounded, crushed, torn to pieces.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

torn to pieces

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