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vb. (context idiomatic English) To attack or criticise.
Usage examples of "rip into".
Astron cut to the side and felt his heel rip into the softening earth.
Terrified, she started for him and then felt a bullet rip into the back of her shoulder.
It loved to maim and kill, and with the slightest excuse it would rip into them all.
A shock wave of particles exploding out of the sun, traveling at an inch short of the speed of light, would rip into the atmosphere like -- why, we'd have seen blue fire over every building!
These are ordinarily quite sufficient to rip into the aluminum skin that constitutes the lift and control surfaces of the strength-members of an airplane's internal framing, turning an aircraft into a ballistic object with no more ability to fly than a bird stripped of its wings.
Her long fangs and terrible talons would rip into the frail flesh, tearing off limbs, lapping up blood and crunching brittle bones.