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rip

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of rip

a long deep cut
  • The hoe left rips in the lawn.
Synonyms of rip

gash, incision, laceration, rent, slash, slit, tear
Words Related to rip

abrasion, score, scrape, scratch

injury, wound

crack, fracture, rupture, snag

rip

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of rip

1 to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it
  • The dog ripped the sleeve of my shirt by grabbing it with his teeth.
Synonyms of rip

rend, rive, shred, tatter, tear
Words Related to rip

break, cleave, rupture, split

cut, gash, incise, lacerate, slash

butcher, dismember, dissect, hack, mangle
2 to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)
  • You can see where someone ripped the painting with a penknife.
Synonyms of rip

cut, gash, incise, shear, slash, slice, slit
Words Related to rip

crosscut, hacksaw, saw, scissor

cleave, rive, split

pierce, stab

bruise, butcher, hack, haggle, lacerate, mangle

rend, tear

carve, chip, chisel, notch

anatomize, dissect, section

chop, dice, mince

amputate, cut off, sever
3 to proceed or move quickly
  • The car went ripping down the road.
Synonyms of rip

barrel, belt, blast, blaze, blow, bolt, bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, career, chase, course, dash, drive, fly, hare, hasten, hie, highball, hotfoot (it), hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, hustle, jet, jump, motor, nip, pelt, race, ram, rocket, run, rush, rustle, scoot, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, step, tear, travel, trot, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom
Words Related to rip

dart, flit, scamper, scud, scuffle

stampede, streak, whiz (or whizz)

gallop, jog, sprint

accelerate, quicken, step out

catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake
Phrases Synonymous with rip

beat it, get a move on, make tracks, shake a leg, step on it
Near Antonyms of rip

dally, dawdle, dillydally, drag, hang (around or out), lag, linger, loiter, poke, tarry

amble, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stroll

decelerate, slow (down or up)
Antonyms of rip

crawl, creep, poke
4 to separate or remove by forceful pulling
  • Rip a sheet off the pad of paper.
Synonyms of rip

tear, wrench, wrest, yank
Words Related to rip

grab, nab, seize, snap (up), snatch

lop (off), nip

amputate, cut (off), dissever, sever

extract, force, jerk, prize, pry, pull, root (out), uproot
Near Antonyms of rip

reattach

Synonym Discussion of rip

tear, rip, rend, split, cleave, rive mean to separate forcibly. tear implies pulling apart by force and leaving jagged edges.
    • tear up the letter
rip implies a pulling apart in one rapid uninterrupted motion often along a line or joint.
    • ripped the shirt on a nail
rend implies very violent or ruthless severing or sundering.
    • an angry mob rent the prisoner's clothes
split implies a cutting or breaking apart in a continuous, straight, and usually lengthwise direction or in the direction of grain or layers.
    • split logs for firewood
cleave implies very forceful splitting or cutting with a blow.
    • a bolt of lightning cleaved the giant oak
rive occurs most often in figurative use.
    • a political party riven by conflict

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