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rip

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a dissolute man in fashionable society(noun.person)

Synonym:
blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue

source: wordnet30
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart(noun.object)

Example:
There was a rip in his pants.

Synonym:
rent, snag, split, tear

source: wordnet30
a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current(noun.event)

Synonym:
countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip

source: wordnet30
the act of rending or ripping or splitting something(noun.act)

Example:
He gave the envelope a vigorous rip.

Synonym:
rent, split

source: wordnet30
A wicker fish basket.(noun)

source: webster1913
A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.(noun)

source: webster1913

tear or be torn violently(verb.contact)

Example:
The curtain ripped from top to bottom.
Pull the cooked chicken into strips.

Synonym:
pull, rend, rive

source: wordnet30
move precipitously or violently(verb.motion)

Example:
The tornado ripped along the coast.

source: wordnet30
cut (wood) along the grain(verb.contact)

source: wordnet30
criticize or abuse strongly and violently(verb.communication)

Example:
The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly.

source: wordnet30
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.(verb)

source: webster1913

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