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Synonyms
rip

verb

  1. tear or be torn violently: "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"
  2. move precipitously or violently: "The tornado ripped along the coast"
  3. cut (wood) along the grain
  4. criticize or abuse strongly and violently: "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"

noun

  1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
  2. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart: "there was a rip in his pants"
  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: "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"