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RIP
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Irregular inflected forms: ripped , ripping
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something
Example:
he gave the envelope a vigorous rip
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rip" is a kind of...):
tear (the act of tearing)
Derivation:
rip (tear or be torn violently)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
Synonyms:
countercurrent; crosscurrent; rip; riptide; tide rip
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rip" is a kind of...):
turbulence; turbulency (unstable flow of a liquid or gas)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
Example:
she had snags in her stockings
Synonyms:
rent; rip; snag; split; tear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
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 4
Meaning:
A dissolute man in fashionable society
Synonyms:
blood; profligate; rake; rakehell; rip; roue
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rip" is a kind of...):
debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they rip ... he / she / it rips
Past simple: ripped
Past participle: ripped
-ing form: ripping
Sense 1
Meaning:
Criticize or abuse strongly and violently
Example:
The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "rip" is one way to...):
assail; assault; attack; lash out; round; snipe (attack in speech or writing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tear or be torn violently
Example:
pull the cooked chicken into strips
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
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 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:
Move precipitously or violently
Example:
The tornado ripped along the coast
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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 5
Meaning:
Take without the owner's consent
Example:
This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
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)
lift; rustle (take illegally)
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
Context examples:
The sizzling planet is so close to its star that it is on the cusp of being ripped apart by the star's gravity.
(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)
“See how the blood rips from your bassinet.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had been with them five years, and old Coxon gave me a ripping good testimonial when the smash came, but of course we clerks were all turned adrift, the twenty-seven of us.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He ripped the remnant of one of his blankets into strips and bound his bleeding feet.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The collision ripped the dwarf to shreds, leaving its stars moving on very radial orbits, like needles.
(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)
Both Earth and its Moon experience what's known as tectonics, processes that push up mountains, rip apart land masses and create quakes.
(Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon, NASA)
Device packaging that has been opened purposefully or inadvertently thus exposing the device to the outside environment and rendering it unsterile or unclean (e.g. a broken seal or ripped or torn packaging).
(Device Packaging Compromised Evaluation Result Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
The nuclear fusion processes constantly try to rip the star apart.
(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)
A colossal impact with a large asteroid early in Mars' history may have ripped off a chunk of the northern hemisphere and left behind a legacy of metallic elements in the planet's interior.
(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
As stellar fusion continued, its resulting UV light began to rip apart the free-floating hydrogen atoms, stripping away their electrons in a process called ionization.
(Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe, National Science Foundation)
