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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rip
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rip/tear sth to bits
▪ She grabbed the letter and ripped it to bits.
tear/rip open an envelope (=open it quickly and roughly)
▪ My fingers trembled as I tore open the envelope.
tear/rip sth to shreds
▪ The clothes were ripped to shreds and covered in blood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
apart
▪ Most of the craft had been cannibalized and ripped apart.
▪ The bomb which ripped apart bus No. 18 in the capital hurled bodies as far as 50 yards.
▪ To produce a sail he had ripped apart his military uniform.
▪ Before our eyes the land is literally being ripped apart.
▪ Three foxes were saved from being savagely ripped apart.
▪ Some shoppers tell horror stories of plastic bags ripping apart as they carry a gallon jug of milk.
▪ The centres of our old cities have been ripped apart to make way for it.
▪ To reward him for this good behavior, I ripped apart the cedar waxwing and handed it to him in little pieces.
away
▪ As the rocket staged the shield was finally ripped away from the rocket, taking the solar panel with it.
▪ And they would rip away my cloak, exposing me to the crowd.
▪ Half its face was ripped away, and its tongue and one ear were almost torn off.
▪ A twenty-five-foot wave carrying huge pieces of concrete flattened schools and ripped away bridges.
▪ Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack, said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo.
▪ Interior walls, as much as possible, were ripped away.
down
▪ Within seconds an aesthetic-looking gentleman was frantically beating off the attack as the great feet ripped down his waistcoat.
▪ Fearfully, Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist.
▪ The man who had agreed with Clive grabbed Nina's jacket collar and tried to rip down her back.
off
▪ What about the indigenous artists who are ripped off by these greedy con merchants?
▪ Sometimes producers collude and consumers get ripped off.
▪ Polly thought she lived in a bedsit and that she was being ripped off.
▪ It turned out to be Paster, hanging by his feet with his skin ripped off.
▪ These can be just those pieces which they find lying around the surface or they can be ripped off the growing plants.
▪ Government spending is not just about irresponsible generations ripping off their descendants or leaving their children broke.
▪ Before that, though, I opened a can of whole chicken and ripped off a leg dribbling with jelly.
▪ Cabrera, 27, started ripping off her clothes and tried to rape her, she and Hernandez testified later.
open
▪ They pierced the fabric of our universe; like a gunshot that ripped open the whole of space and time.
▪ They ripped open the jugular vein, releasing an appalling rush of blood.
▪ He threw off his load, unslung his Uzi and ripped open the door.
▪ Impatiently she struggled out of her blue gaberdine suit and began to rip open the thick, shiny bags and the gleaming boxes.
▪ Giving herself the advantage of surprise, she ripped open the door.
▪ He ripped open one of the little silver foil packets and handed her the lubricated ring of rubber.
▪ His hard knuckles ripped open the soft flesh over Luke's eye.
out
▪ Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen.
▪ Every time I tried to pull myself up, my fistfuls of rockweed ripped out.
▪ Retirements included George Gyngell who ripped out his seat mountings in the lively conditions.
▪ Some one had ripped out the cables - more proof of attention to detail.
▪ Not wanting to know these things, not wanting to see himself, Oedipus rips out his eyes.
▪ All this had to be ripped out before any redecoration could get under way.
▪ Many gardeners find it hard to rip out a perennial flower that has taken root.
up
▪ Gina ripped up one of his articles.
▪ I could see myself ripping up injunctions.
▪ At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside, devastation littering its wake.
▪ I felt like a plant ripped up by the roots.
▪ They said whole fields were ripped up into the air!
▪ She ripped up a sheet and put the rags between her legs and slept as much as she could.
▪ I still think of this when I rip up an old vest for a piece of silver-polishing rag.
▪ An orange ball of flame ripped up into the sky, bathing the deck in light like a miniature sun.
■ NOUN
bomb
▪ Twelve people died after a bomb ripped through a busy underground passage at Moscow's Pushkin Square during the rush-hour last week.
▪ The bomb which ripped apart bus No. 18 in the capital hurled bodies as far as 50 yards.
▪ A bomb ripped apart the No. 18 bus on Jaffa Street early on a workday morning.
clothes
▪ Devil woman ripped all my clothes off me, sort of thing.
▪ Cabrera, 27, started ripping off her clothes and tried to rape her, she and Hernandez testified later.
▪ Most men I know would be ripping my clothes off by now.
▪ The blast - triggered when Alan lit his gas oven - had ripped off his clothes.
▪ He gouged her cheek with a screwdriver, but failed to rip off her clothes.
heart
▪ He said he wanted to rip Lewis's heart from his body.
▪ Even the most banal of church hymns can rip your heart out at times like this.
▪ Big Black ripped the heart out of several corners of music and were astonishing in their own right.
▪ We think a bypass would rip the heart out of Scarisbrick, the village where we live and some farmers would be ruined.
piece
▪ The power of the swells breaking now would rip him to pieces in seconds.
▪ If you feel like writing a scathing letter and then ripping it into little pieces, do it!
▪ As he had always suspected, she was just waiting and watching for an opportunity to rip him to pieces.
▪ One ripped a piece of flesh out from my armpit.
▪ I know that it is unnecessary to rip animals to pieces to preserve the balance of nature.
▪ If piranhas can rip a horse to pieces in no time, surely even a seven foot long otter offers little challenge?
▪ She ripped him into little pieces.
▪ We're all ripping each other to pieces here Voice over Back in the tasting room they were still hard at it.
shirt
▪ She ripped her shirt from her jeans and her hands held Lucy's head like fine porcelain.
▪ This girl ripped my shirt off and then went for my trousers.
▪ Boateng went berserk, ripping Johnson's shirt in a nasty scrap.
▪ When he re-emerged he was ripping his shirt off - it was my shirt, too.
shred
▪ His silk ballooned, ripping into shreds.
▪ I can recall that my command tent was ripped to shreds.
▪ For him there is nothing but mangled meat and pulverised potatoes, ripped to shreds by his incompetent cutlery.
▪ Its springtime for President Bill Clinton as he watches his Republican challengers rip each other to shreds.
▪ One could hardly wear garments that were ripped to shreds and spattered with blood.
▪ And the politicians, thank goodness, have only so much money with which to rip each other to shreds.
■ VERB
let
▪ They had followed, and he had let his feelings rip when the driver had lost the taxi at a traffic light.
want
▪ He said he wanted to rip Lewis's heart from his body.
▪ If critics want to rip me for that, so be it!
▪ I want to rip them up, stamp on them, throw them out the window.
▪ He wanted to rip it out of the wall.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pull/rip/tear sb/sth to pieces
▪ And having got under them, he can't half tear them to pieces.
▪ Brandon Thomas opted to unveil his Aunt away from London fearful that the capital's theatre critics would tear it to pieces.
▪ He was thrown from his chariot and his horses tore him to pieces and devoured him.
▪ I had been given the power to obliterate, to steal a body from its grave and tear it to pieces.
▪ If Hyde returns while I am writing this confession, he will tear it to pieces to annoy me.
▪ They will tear you to pieces.
▪ We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws.
smash/rip/tear sth to pieces
▪ And having got under them, he can't half tear them to pieces.
▪ Brandon Thomas opted to unveil his Aunt away from London fearful that the capital's theatre critics would tear it to pieces.
▪ He was thrown from his chariot and his horses tore him to pieces and devoured him.
▪ I had been given the power to obliterate, to steal a body from its grave and tear it to pieces.
▪ If Hyde returns while I am writing this confession, he will tear it to pieces to annoy me.
▪ Telling me the strangest things sometimes, evil things - till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces.
▪ We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws.
tear/rip sth to shreds
▪ And the politicians, thank goodness, have only so much money with which to rip each other to shreds.
▪ Its springtime for President Bill Clinton as he watches his Republican challengers rip each other to shreds.
▪ Other than the chance to rip it to shreds.
▪ The agony of such a torment would tear her to shreds.
▪ They didn't have a humidifier and it's torn my voice to shreds.
▪ They snarled at them as if they were criminals and took their papers as if they'd like to tear them to shreds.
▪ They would have torn Corbett to shreds if the grille had been raised.
▪ Within two years, other researchers had torn it to shreds.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Beth excitedly ripped open the package.
▪ I ripped my skirt on a broken chair.
▪ My zipper was stuck, and the material around it ripped as I pulled on it.
▪ Stop pulling my dress! You'll rip it!
▪ Tom heard his shorts rip as he climbed over the gate.
▪ We both fell and I heard his shirt rip.
▪ You can see where the label has been ripped out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Athelstan carefully ripped the canvas open with the small knife he always carried.
▪ He grabbed his daughter's long sleeve, but she jerked away, ripping the flower-embroidered linen, towards the other table.
▪ He wanted to rip it out of the wall.
▪ If you feel like writing a scathing letter and then ripping it into little pieces, do it!
▪ One summer she frizzed her hair and took to wearing designer ripped leans.
▪ Sometimes it thickened and pulsed with blood and felt like it was going to rip something.
▪ The hornets' nest was ripped from the branch as the strip passed by.
▪ The impact caused my fistfuls of weed to rip off the rock with a sickening, slimy, ripping sound.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A rip in a repair worker's protective suit increases the risk of getting a shock as they work on the electricity lines.
▪ Anne's jacket has a rip in it.
▪ The rips in the boat's old sails had been patched again and again.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gives it a smash, gives it a rip.
▪ His hands were scratched and dusty and there were small rips in his sweater.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rip

Rip \Rip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Ripping.] [Cf. AS. r[=y]pan, also Sw. repa to ripple flax, D. repelen, G. reffen, riffeln, and E. raff, raffle. Cf. Raff, Ripple of flax.]

  1. To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.

  2. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.

    He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.
    --Granville.

  3. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.

    They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion.
    --Clarendon.

    For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely.
    --Milton.

  4. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

    Ripping chisel (Carp.), a crooked chisel for cleaning out mortises.
    --Knight.

    Ripping iron. (Shipbuilding) Same as Ravehook.

    Ripping saw. (Carp.) See Ripsaw.

    To rip out, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See To rap out, under Rap, v. t.

Rip

Rip \Rip\, n. [Cf. Icel. hrip a box or basket; perhaps akin to E. corb. Cf. Ripier.] A wicker fish basket.

Rip

Rip \Rip\, n.

  1. A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

  2. [Perh. a corruption of the first syllable of reprobate.] A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.

  3. A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rip

"tear apart," c.1400, probably of North Sea Germanic origin (compare Flemish rippen "strip off roughly," Frisian rippe "to tear, rip") or else from a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish reppa, Danish rippe "to tear, rip"). In either case, from Proto-Germanic *rupjan-, from PIE root *reup-, *reub- "to snatch." Meaning "to slash open" is from 1570s. Related: Ripped; ripping.\n\nIn garments we rip along the line at which they were sewed; we tear the texture of the cloth. ... Rend implies great force or violence.

[Century Dictionary]

\nMeaning "to move with slashing force" (1798) is the sense in let her rip, American English colloquial phrase attested from 1853. The noun is attested from 1711. The parachutist's rip cord (1911) originally was a device in ballooning to open a panel and release air.
rip

"rough water," 1775, perhaps a special use of rip (v.). Originally of seas; application to rivers is from 1828.

rip

"thing of little value," 1815, earlier "inferior or worn-out horse" (1778), perhaps altered from slang rep (1747) "man of loose character; vicious, reckless and worthless person," which itself is perhaps short for reprobate (n.).

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Wiktionary
rip

Etymology 1 n. 1 A tear (in paper, etc.). 2 A type of tide or current. 3 # (context Australia English) A strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves. 4 (context slang English) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action. 5 (context slang English) A hit (dose) of marijuan

  1. 6 (context UK Eton College English) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork. v

  2. (context transitive English) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence. Etymology 2

    n. A wicker basket for fish. Etymology 3

    n. 1 (cx colloquial regional English) A worthless horse; a nag. (from 18th

  3. ) 2 (cx colloquial regional English) An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel. (from 18th c.)

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WordNet
rip

  1. n. a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake, profligate, blood, roue]

  2. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rent, snag, split, tear]

  3. a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current [syn: riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent]

  4. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, split]

  5. [also: ripping, ripped]

rip

  1. v. tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" [syn: rend, rive, pull]

  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"

  5. [also: ripping, ripped]

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Wikipedia
Rip

To rip is the act of tearing an object.

Rip may also refer to:

Rip (dog)

Rip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex.

RIP (band)

R.I.P. was a hardcore punk group from Mondragón, Basque Country ( Spain), and were part of the Basque Radical Rock musical movement in the early 1980s. By 2014, three of the band's classic four members — lead singer Karlos "Mahoma" Agirreurreta, bassist "Portu" Mancebo and guitarist Jul Bolinaga — had died.

Rip (nickname)

Rip is a nickname for:

  • Rip Coleman (1931–2004), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Rip Collins (disambiguation)
  • Rip Engle (1906–1983), American football player and coach of football and basketball
  • John Salmon Ford (1815–1897), Republic of Texas and American politician, and Confederate Army colonel
  • Rip Hagerman (1888–1930), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Richard Hamilton (basketball) (born 1978), American National Basketball Association player
  • Rip Hawkins (born 1939), American National Football League player
  • Edgar Miller (1901–1991), American football player, coach and college athletics administrator
  • Rip Radcliff (1906–1962), American Major League Baseball player
  • Rip Repulski (1928–1993), American Major League Baseball outfielder
  • Rip Taylor (born 1934), American actor
  • Rip Torn (born 1931), American actor
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Usage examples of "rip".

I ripped away my shirt and poured undiluted acriflavine solution into the cavernous wounds.

As the humans whipped around the outer edges of the dancing whirlpool, the afanc swam in quick lunges and ripped them free in its jaws.

The agonizing pain would soon be ripping through her womb as her body fought to conceive.

Ripping off his cloak, Alec gathered the hem of it in one hand and tossed the other end at the upthrust corner, hoping to catch it with the hood.

And how can he in good conscience just rip off, swallow, digest and expel as his what an alumnus with a streaked orange face and removable hair has clearly seen first herself?

But as they left the beautifully landscaped road that had carried them from the airport to the city and turned off into the urban residential district he saw that the splendor was, unsurprisingly, a fraud of the usual Alvarado kind: the avenues had been paved, all right, but they were reverting to nature again, cracking and upheaving as the swelling roots of the bombacho trees and the candelero palms that had been planted down the central dividers ripped them apart.

The massive amphibian whipped its head back and forth in an instinctual frenzy to rip and tear.

Asara kissed her hard, harder, and Kaiku felt a pain inside her, as if some organ in her breast were about to rip free, her heart about to tear from its aortal mooring.

He nearly ripped the door to the armory off its hinges, took a deep breath and stepped onto the top of the armory stairs.

As soon as the daily newspapers are done with, he rips them up in geometric squares and stores them in the cellar privy so that they all can wipe their arses with I them.

It was all I could do to tear my eyes off Asteria, who sat panting on the ground, ripping at the shreds of the long robe entangling her neck and legs.

Then came an awful ripping sound, as of a body being torn asunder, and he felt the ground quiver beneath him again.

The former would try to rip the fabric asunder, the latter to patch it.

Hunter smashed him across the head with his atlatl, ripping his cheek open.

He could feel the baleen ripping the skin on his back as the tongue covered him, pressing the seawater out around him as it would strain krill, then crushing him until the last of the air exploded from his body and he blacked out.