| rip | | |
| n. (person) | 1. blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue | a dissolute man in fashionable society. |
| ~ debauchee, libertine, rounder | a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained. |
| n. (object) | 2. rent, rip, snag, split, tear | an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" |
| ~ opening, gap | an open or empty space in or between things.; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall" |
| n. (event) | 3. countercurrent, crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip | a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current. |
| ~ turbulence, turbulency | unstable flow of a liquid or gas. |
| n. (act) | 4. rent, rip, split | the act of rending or ripping or splitting something.; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" |
| ~ tear | the act of tearing.; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear" |
| v. (contact) | 5. pull, rend, rip, rive | tear or be torn violently.; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" |
| ~ rupture, tear, snap, bust | separate or cause to separate abruptly.; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" |
| v. (motion) | 6. rip | move precipitously or violently.; "The tornado ripped along the coast" |
| ~ shoot down, buck, tear, charge, shoot | move quickly and violently.; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" |
| v. (contact) | 7. rip | cut (wood) along the grain. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (communication) | 8. rip | criticize or abuse strongly and violently.; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly" |
| ~ lash out, attack, assail, assault, snipe, round | attack in speech or writing.; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" |
| tear | | |
| n. (body) | 1. tear, teardrop | a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.; "his story brought tears to her eyes" |
| ~ lachrymal secretion, lacrimal secretion | saline fluid secreted by lacrimal glands; lubricates the surface of the eyeball. |
| ~ drib, driblet, drop | a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid).; "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet" |
| ~ h2o, water | binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent. |
| n. (act) | 2. binge, bout, bust, tear | an occasion for excessive eating or drinking.; "they went on a bust that lasted three days" |
| ~ revel, revelry | unrestrained merrymaking. |
| ~ piss-up | vulgar expression for a bout of heavy drinking. |
| n. (act) | 3. tear | the act of tearing.; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear" |
| ~ separation | the act of dividing or disconnecting. |
| ~ laceration | the act of lacerating. |
| ~ rent, rip, split | the act of rending or ripping or splitting something.; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" |
| v. (contact) | 4. bust, rupture, snap, tear | separate or cause to separate abruptly.; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" |
| ~ disunite, separate, part, divide | force, take, or pull apart.; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" |
| ~ lacerate | cut or tear irregularly. |
| ~ rend, rip, rive, pull | tear or be torn violently.; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" |
| ~ rip up, shred, tear up | tear into shreds. |
| v. (contact) | 5. tear | to separate or be separated by force.; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars" |
| ~ cleave, rive, split | separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.; "cleave the bone" |
| ~ disunite, separate, part, divide | force, take, or pull apart.; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" |
| v. (motion) | 6. buck, charge, shoot, shoot down, tear | move quickly and violently.; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" |
| ~ belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it, hasten | move fast.; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" |
| ~ dash, scoot, scud, dart, flash, shoot | run or move very quickly or hastily.; "She dashed into the yard" |
| ~ rip | move precipitously or violently.; "The tornado ripped along the coast" |
| v. (contact) | 7. deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull, tear | strip of feathers.; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" |
| ~ strip | remove the surface from.; "strip wood" |
| v. (body) | 8. tear | fill with tears or shed tears.; "Her eyes were tearing" |
| ~ weep, cry | shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain.; "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs" |
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