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Synonyms for rip
rɪprip

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. ripnoun

    Synonyms:
    tear

  2. ripverb

    To cause something, usually paper, to rapidly become two parts.

    Synonyms:
    tear

  3. ripnoun

    A type of tide or current.

    A strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves

    Synonyms:
    tear

  4. ripnoun

    To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.

    Synonyms:
    tear

  5. ripverb

    A hit of marijuana.

    Synonyms:
    tear

  6. ripverb

    To take a hit of marijuana.

    Synonyms:
    tear

  7. ripverb

    To fart.

    Synonyms:
    tear

  8. ripverb

    To mock or criticize.

    Synonyms:
    tear

  9. ripverb

    To steal; to rip off.

    Synonyms:
    tear

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. rip

    Rend and tear are applied to the separating of textile substances into parts by force violently applied (rend also to frangible substances), tear being the milder, rend the stronger word. Rive is a wood-workers' word for parting wood in the way of the grain without a clean cut. To lacerate is to tear roughly the flesh or animal tissue, as by the teeth of a wild beast; a lacerated wound is distinguished from a wound made by a clean cut or incision. Mangle is a stronger word than lacerate; lacerate is more superficial, mangle more complete. To burst or rupture is to tear or rend by force from within, burst denoting the greater violence; as, to burst a gun; to rupture a blood-vessel; a steam-boiler may be ruptured when its substance is made to divide by internal pressure without explosion. To rip, as usually applied to garments or other articles made by sewing or stitching, is to divide along the line of a seam by cutting or breaking the stitches; the other senses bear some resemblance or analogy to this; as, to rip open a wound. Compare BREAK.

    Synonyms:
    break, burst, cleave, lacerate, mangle, rend, rive, rupture, sever, slit, sunder, tear

    Antonyms:
    heal, join, mend, reunite, secure, sew, solder, stitch, unite, weld

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, rouenoun

    a dissolute man in fashionable society

    Synonyms:
    rent, pitch, rakehell, parentage, blood line, snag, crosscurrent, lineage, roue, stock, ancestry, stemma, descent, pedigree, riptide, line of descent, blood, tide rip, line, slant, squanderer, rake, origin, split, countercurrent, bloodline, tear, profligate, prodigal

  2. rip, rent, snag, split, tearnoun

    an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

    "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"

    Synonyms:
    rent, economic rent, rakehell, snag, crosscurrent, roue, bust, hitch, binge, split up, teardrop, tide rip, riptide, stock split, blood, tear, rake, hang-up, split, countercurrent, schism, profligate, bout, rub

  3. rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrentnoun

    a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

    Synonyms:
    profligate, tide rip, snag, rent, split, tear, roue, crosscurrent, blood, rakehell, rip current, countercurrent, riptide, rake

  4. rent, rip, splitverb

    the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

    "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

    Synonyms:
    rent, economic rent, rakehell, snag, crosscurrent, roue, tide rip, riptide, stock split, blood, tear, rake, split up, split, countercurrent, schism, profligate

  5. rend, rip, rive, pullverb

    tear or be torn violently

    "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

    Synonyms:
    pull up, overstretch, extract, root for, cleave, force, draw out, deplumate, get out, pluck, draw, displume, pull in, tear, pull, perpetrate, split, deplume, pull out, rive, commit, attract, rend, take out, draw in

  6. ripverb

    move precipitously or violently

    "The tornado ripped along the coast"

    Synonyms:
    pull, rive, rend

  7. ripverb

    cut (wood) along the grain

    Synonyms:
    pull, rive, rend

  8. ripverb

    criticize or abuse strongly and violently

    "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"

    Synonyms:
    pull, rive, rend

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ripverb

    Synonyms:
    tear open, tear apart

  2. ripnoun

    Synonyms:
    tear, rent, laceration

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ripnoun

    Synonyms:
    rent, tear

  2. ripnoun

    Synonyms:
    (Slang) harridan, hag

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "rip":

    rips, www.v2.frigorifix.com, pir, fir, tear, irp

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How to use rip in a sentence?

  1. Michael Connelly:

    The trick if you are sitting at the defense table is to be patient. To wait. Not just for any lie. But for the one you can grab on to and forge like hot iron into a sharpened blade. You then use that blade to rip the case open and spill its guts on the floor.

  2. Ronnie Gupton:

    Cam knows I'm good at riling up crowds, so he said, 'This is your opportunity,' i can rip out some decent dance moves. I can get out on the dance floor and take over the circle for a hot beat.

  3. Tony Robbins:

    I don’t think you should go to your garden, and there are weeds there, and [you] start chanting, ‘There are no weeds, there are no weeds, there are no weeds.’ Come on! you have to see the weeds so you can rip them out.

  4. Ron Wyden:

    Today, across American we are taking the gloves off to say it’s time to knock off the tax rip-off, no more Cayman Islands tax breaks … no more Wall Street tax breaks.

  5. Bill Gross:

    A purchase of Treasuries and a sale of Bunds allows for not only a potential capital gain if the spread narrows, but a yield pickup while the Rip Van Winkle investor potentially waits for a probable outcome.


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