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RIP (ripped, ripping)
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, ripping Dictionary entry overview: What does rip mean?
• RIP (noun)
The noun RIP has 4 senses:
1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
2. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
3. a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
4. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
Familiarity information: RIP used as a noun is uncommon.
• RIP (verb)
The verb RIP has 5 senses:
1. tear or be torn violently
2. move precipitously or violently
3. cut (wood) along the grain
4. take without the owner's consent
5. criticize or abuse strongly and violently
Familiarity information: RIP used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dissolute man in fashionable society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
blood; profligate; rake; rakehell; rip; roue
Hypernyms ("rip" is a kind of...):
debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Context example:
she had snags in her stockings
Hypernyms ("rip" is a kind of...):
gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)
Derivation:
rip (tear or be torn violently)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
countercurrent; crosscurrent; rip; riptide; tide rip
Hypernyms ("rip" is a kind of...):
turbulence; turbulency (unstable flow of a liquid or gas)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
Context example:
he gave the envelope a vigorous rip
Hypernyms ("rip" is a kind of...):
tear (the act of tearing)
Derivation:
rip (tear or be torn violently)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it rips Past simple: ripped
Past participle: ripped
-ing form: ripping
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tear or be torn violently
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
Context example:
pull the cooked chicken into strips
Hypernyms (to "rip" is one way to...):
bust; rupture; snap; tear (separate or cause to separate abruptly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They rip the sheets
Derivation:
rip (the act of rending or ripping or splitting something)
rip (an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Move precipitously or violently
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
The tornado ripped along the coast
Hypernyms (to "rip" is one way to...):
buck; charge; shoot; shoot down; tear (move quickly and violently)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Cut (wood) along the grain
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "rip" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Take without the owner's consent
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
Context example:
This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation
Hypernyms (to "rip" is one way to...):
take (take by force)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rip"):
abstract; cabbage; filch; hook; lift; nobble; pilfer; pinch; purloin; snarf; sneak; swipe (make off with belongings of others)
shoplift (steal in a store)
pirate (copy illegally; of published material)
lift; plagiarise; plagiarize (take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property)
defalcate; embezzle; malversate; misappropriate; peculate (appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use)
rob (take something away by force or without the consent of the owner)
cop; glom; hook; knock off; snitch; thieve (take by theft)
walk off (take without permission)
hustle; pluck; roll (sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity)
loot; plunder (take illegally; of intellectual property)
burglarise; burglarize; burgle; heist (commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Sense 5
Meaning:
Criticize or abuse strongly and violently
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly
Hypernyms (to "rip" is one way to...):
assail; assault; attack; lash out; round; snipe (attack in speech or writing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples
“Come here, when you're called,” said the tinker, “or I'll rip your young body open.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He sprang upon Buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
In consequence, his forearm was ripped open to the bone.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I felt the mattress-like growth of beard on my neck, knew that the sleeve of my coat was ripped, that a button was missing from the throat of the blue shirt I wore.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Then his hand went to his collar, which he ripped out of the shirt and stuffed into his pocket.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Reports related to the outer, protective wrapping of a device (e.g. a broken seal or ripping (compromised), lack of correct contents).
(Device Packaging Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
Wait is what I say; but when the time comes, why, let her rip!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
This exoplanet is so close to its star that if it got any closer, the star's gravity would start ripping it apart.
(Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere, NASA)
One potential explanation of the Cow is that a star has been ripped apart in what astronomers call a "tidal disruption event."
(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)
“Do you stay behind,” said the woodman, “and when I have knocked him on the head you must rip him up with the scythe.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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