Present participle of betatter; the process of tearing something into rags or reducing it to tatters.
The gerund/present participle form of 'betatter,' formed by adding '-ing' to the verb stem. Represents ongoing destructive action that produces rags or tatters.
The progressive form 'betattering' suggests a process you can watch—fabric slowly becoming useless—which gives the word a cinematic quality that plain 'tearing' lacks.
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