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  1. transitive verb To cut, tear apart, or tear away roughly or energetically. See Synonyms at tear1.
  2. transitive verb To split or saw (wood) along the grain.
  3. transitive verb To subject to vehement criticism or attack: The critic ripped the tedious movie.
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  • And the rip was my one sure way of getting to Arcellano. —  The Vatican Rip-Jonathan Gash- Lovejoy 05
  • Incidentally this rip is from cd as my lp was immersed and wrecked in a shower of lager whilst djing with my partner in crime at the time-25 years ago-Bob Povey who went on to Bump and Hustle fame and more. —  ORGY IN RHYTHM
  • "If this were about some kind of philosophical rip, then I would have indeed obstructed on all kinds of different funds," he said. —  news | GS | http://www.gainesville.com
  • I did a new rip, and played through a portion of that ripped file until this artifact appeared; I paused the playback and went back to the original commercial disk and viewed that up to the same point. —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • Extended warranties are notoriously expensive - they can cost up to 50\% of the purchase price of an appliance according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and have often been dubbed a rip-off. —  This is Money | Home
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eigrp ·  ip ·  bulge ·  gash ·  slash ·  lurch

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rip:   ripped ·  ripping
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Etymologies (11)

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  1. Middle English rippen, from Flemish; see reup- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Probably from rip1.
  3. Possibly shortening and alteration of reprobate.

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  1. Early modern English ryppe, rype, from Middle English rippen, ripen, rypen, rip up, search into, seek out (Anglo-Saxon *rypan, *ryppan, rip, break in pieces, not authenticated), = French riper, scrape, drag, from Norwegian ripa, scratch, score with the point of a knife, = Swedish dial. ripa, scratch, also pluck asunder, rip open, Swedish repa, scratch, rip (in repa upp, rip up), = Danish rippe, rip (in oprippe, rip up); apparently a secondary form, from the root of Icelandic rīfa, rive (rīfa upp, pull up, rīfa aptr, rip up): see rive. The word has prob. been confused with others of similar form, and has thus taken on an unusual variety of meanings; cf. rip, rip, ripe, ripple, reap.
  2. from rip, v.
  3. from Middle English rip, rippe, a basket, from Icelandic hrip, a basket or box of laths to carry peat, etc.
  4. apparently a particular use of rip, like rap in “to rap out an oath.”
  5. Of obscure origin; prob. in all uses from rip, v., in the general sense of ‘act violently, recklessly, rudely,’ hence ‘go to ruin or decay.’
  6. A variant of reap, a sheaf.
  7. Cf. ripple.
  8. Also ripe, ripple; origin uncertain.
 

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