Word Study
rip
CIDE DICTIONARY
rip, n. [Cf. Icel. hrip a box or basket; perhaps akin to E. corb. Cf. Ripier.].
A wicker fish basket. [1913 Webster]
rip, v. t. [Cf. AS. r, also Sw. repa to ripple flax, D. repelen, G. reffen, riffeln, and E. raff, raffle. Cf. Raff, Ripple of flax.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing. [1913 Webster]"He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart." [1913 Webster]
- To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up. [1913 Webster]"They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion." [1913 Webster]"For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely." [1913 Webster]
- To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber. [1913 Webster]
rip, n.
- A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration. [1913 Webster]
- A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse. [1913 Webster]
- A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rip, abbr. may he or she or they rest in peace.
Etymology
L requiescat (pl. requiescant) in pace
rip, v. & n.
--v.tr. & intr. (ripped, ripping)
1 tr. tear or cut (a thing) quickly or forcibly away or apart (ripped out the lining; ripped the book up).
2 tr. a make (a hole etc.) by ripping. b make a long tear or cut in.
3 intr. come violently apart; split.
4 intr. rush along.
--n.
1 a long tear or cut.
2 an act of ripping.
--v.tr. & intr. (ripped, ripping)
1 tr. tear or cut (a thing) quickly or forcibly away or apart (ripped out the lining; ripped the book up).
2 tr. a make (a hole etc.) by ripping. b make a long tear or cut in.
3 intr. come violently apart; split.
4 intr. rush along.
--n.
1 a long tear or cut.
2 an act of ripping.
Idiom
let rip colloq.
1 act or proceed without restraint.
2 speak violently.
3 not check the speed of or interfere with (a person or thing). rip-cord a cord for releasing a parachute from its pack. rip into attack (a person) verbally. rip off colloq. defraud, steal. rip-off n.
colloq.
1 a fraud or swindle.
2 financial exploitation.
1 act or proceed without restraint.
2 speak violently.
3 not check the speed of or interfere with (a person or thing). rip-cord a cord for releasing a parachute from its pack. rip into attack (a person) verbally. rip off colloq. defraud, steal. rip-off n.
colloq.
1 a fraud or swindle.
2 financial exploitation.
rip, n. a stretch of rough water in the sea or in a river, caused by the meeting of currents.
Idiom
rip current (or tide)
1 a strong surface current from the shore.
2 a state of conflicting psychological forces.
1 a strong surface current from the shore.
2 a state of conflicting psychological forces.
rip, n.
1 a dissolute person.
2 a rascal.
3 a worthless horse.
1 a dissolute person.
2 a rascal.
3 a worthless horse.
Etymology
perh. f. rep, abbr. of REPROBATE
THESAURUS
rip
Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, abrade, abrasion, agonize, badger, ball the jack, bark, barrel, blackmail, blemish, bloody, boom, bowl along, breach, break, breakage, breeze, breeze along, broach, brush, burn, burst, chafe, check, chink, chip, claw, cleave, cleft, clip, concussion, convulse, crack, crackle, craze, crevasse, crucify, cut, cut along, cut open, debauchee, defoliate, denude, direct tide, dismember, dispart, divaricate, divide, draw and quarter, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, exact, excruciate, extort, fissure, flash burn, flay, fleet, flit, flood, flood tide, flow, flux, flux and reflux, fly, fly low, fly open, foot, force from, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, full tide, gall, gallant, gap, gash, gay deceiver, gay dog, go fast, harrow, high tide, high water, highball, hurt, impale, incise, incision, injure, injury, kill by inches, lacerate, laceration, lady-killer, lancinate, lay open, lesion, levy blackmail, libertine, lover-boy, low tide, low water, lunar tide, macerate, maim, make knots, make mincemeat of, mangle, martyr, martyrize, maul, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, neap, neap tide, nip, ope, open, open up, opposite tide, outstrip the wind, part, peel, philanderer, pick to pieces, pierce, pour it on, profligate, pry loose from, pull apart, puncture, punish, rack, rake, rakehell, refluence, reflux, rend, rend from, rent, rift, rip from, riptide, rive, roue, rounder, run, rupture, savage, scald, scale, scarify, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, screw, scuff, second-degree burn, separate, shake down, shred, sizzle, skim, skin, skirt chaser, slash, slice, slit, snatch from, solar tide, sore, speed, splinter, split, sprain, spread, spread out, spring open, spring tide, squeeze, stab, stab wound, stick, storm along, strain, strip, sweep, swing open, swinger, take apart, tap, tear, tear along, tear apart, tear from, tear open, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, thalassometer, third-degree burn, throw open, thunder along, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway, torment, torture, trauma, traumatize, walking phallus, wanton, whisk, whiz, wolf, woman chaser, womanizer, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from, zing, zip, zoomROGET THESAURUS
rip
Libertine
N libertine, voluptuary, rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell, fast man, intrigant, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard, chartered libertine, adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, woman, woman of the town, streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece, frail sisterhood, demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, slut, minx, harridan, unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman, woman of easy virtue, wanton, fornicatress, Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette, demimonde, chippy, sapphist, spiritual wife, white slave, concubine, mistress, doxy, chere amie, bona roba, pimp, procurer, pander, pandar, bawd, conciliatrix, procuress, mackerel, wittol.Bad Man
N bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity, evildoer, sinner, the wicked, bad example, villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash, caitiff, wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, cockatrice, basilisk, urchin, tiger, monster, devil, devil incarnate, demon in human shape, Nana Sahib, hellhound, hellcat, rakehell, bad woman, jade, Jezebel, scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag, scallawag, rou_e, rake, Sadist, skeesicks, skeezix, limb, one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog, rounder, lost sheep, black sheep, castaway, recreant, defaulter, prodigal, rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly customer, mean mother, ruffian, bully, meanie, Jonathan Wild, hangman, incendiary, arsonist, fire bug, thief, murderer, terrorist, culprit, delinquent, crook, hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug, malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp, disorderly person, misdemeanant, outlaw, scofflaw, vandal, felon, (convicted criminal), criminal, convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man, multiple offender, blackguard, polisson, loafer, sneak, rapscallion, rascallion, cullion, mean wretch, varlet, kern, ame-de-boue, drole, cur, dog, hound, whelp, mongrel, lown, loon, runnion, outcast, vagabond, rogue, ronian, scum of the earth, riffraff, Arcades ambo, Int, sirrah!, Acherontis pabulum, gibier de potence.Interment
N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.For further exploring for "rip" in Webster Dictionary Online
