 rip |
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| 1. | [ verb ] tear or be torn violently | |
| Synonyms: | rend rive pull | |
| Examples: | "The curtain ripped from top to bottom" "pull the cooked chicken into strips" |
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| Related terms: | tear rent | |
| 2. | [ verb ] cut (wood) along the grain | |
| Related terms: | cut | |
| 3. | [ verb ] move precipitously or violently | |
| Synonyms: | tear | |
| Examples: | "The tornado ripped along the coast" |
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| Related terms: | travel tear | |
| 4. | [ noun ] a dissolute man in fashionable society | |
| Synonyms: | blood profligate roue rake | |
| Related terms: | libertine | |
| 5. | [ noun ] (physics) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | |
| Synonyms: | tide_rip crosscurrent countercurrent riptide | |
| Related terms: | turbulence | |
| 6. | [ noun ] an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | |
| Synonyms: | rent tear snag split | |
| Examples: | "there was a rip in his pants" "she had snags in her stockings" |
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| Related terms: | opening rend tear | |
| 7. | [ verb ] criticize or abuse strongly and violently | |
| Examples: | "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly" |
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| Related terms: | attack | |
| 8. | [ noun ] the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | |
| Synonyms: | split rent | |
| Examples: | "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" |
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| Related terms: | tear cleave | |
| Similar spelling: |
ripe Rippy Rippe Rippey Rippee rib rive Riva riff rife Riffe Riebe |
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