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US
/ˈɹɪp/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɪp/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɪp/ ]
VERB
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tear or be torn violently
The curtain ripped from top to bottom
pull the cooked chicken into strips - cut (wood) along the grain
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move precipitously or violently
The tornado ripped along the coast -
criticize or abuse strongly and violently
The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly -
take without the owner's consent
This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation
Someone stole my wallet on the train
NOUN
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an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
she had snags in her stockings
there was a rip in his pants - a dissolute man in fashionable society
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the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
he gave the envelope a vigorous rip - a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
How To Use rip In A Sentence
- Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
- Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- At any rate, she rolled up the cuffs of her camouflage cargo pants a few times so she didn't trip if today's class required running.
- As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
- Trip steels have a microstructure with retained austenite, ferrite and martensite.
- I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have not found them to be branchiae; whereas he himself admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiae. Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
- Our economy suffered a triple whammy this year - we were hit by Sars, the Iraq war, and then the world economic downturn.
- None of the fathers' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment.
- We welcome submissions through e-mail because that saves us the bother of retyping the selected manuscripts.