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Rip

verb
(past & past part. ripped; pres. part. ripping)
1.
Tear or be torn violently.  Synonyms: pull, rend, rive.  "Pull the cooked chicken into strips"
2.
Move precipitously or violently.
3.
Cut (wood) along the grain.
4.
Criticize or abuse strongly and violently.
noun
1.
A dissolute man in fashionable society.  Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue.
2.
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.  Synonyms: rent, snag, split, tear.  "She had snags in her stockings"
3.
A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current.  Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip.
4.
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.  Synonyms: rent, split.



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"Rip" Quotes from Famous Books



... a comedian convulse thousands with his delineations of the weaknesses of humanity in the inimitable "Rip Van Winkle." I saw him make laughter hold its sides, as he impersonated the coward in "The Rivals;" and I said: I would rather have the power of Joseph Jefferson, to make the world laugh, and to drive care and trouble from weary brains and sorrow from heavy hearts, than to wear the blood-stained ...
— Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales • Robert L. Taylor
... be in sight when the Federals come around here," replied Marcy. "I'll make it my business to get it out of the way, and then I'll rip up one of my bed quilts and show ...
— Marcy The Blockade Runner • Harry Castlemon
... by the breathing rip, Where the bell is never still, And over the sounding harbor bar, And ...
— Ballads of Lost Haven - A Book of the Sea • Bliss Carman
... If some "Rip Van Winkle" of the sixteenth century could have slept for two centuries to awake in 1750, he would have found far less to marvel at in the common life of the people than would one of us. Much of the farming, even of the weaving, buying, and selling, ...
— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes
... hastily unmade the bed, and searched for her scissors to rip the mattress; she put on her spectacles, looked at the ticking, saw the hole, and let fall the mattress. Hearing a sigh from the depths of the old woman's breast, as though she were strangled by a rush of blood to the heart, Joseph instinctively ...
— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac


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