Synonyms of ripping

ripping

verb

present participle of rip

1

as in tearing

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 & Similar Words

• tearing
• shredding
• rending
• splitting
• cutting
• breaking
• riving
• tattering
• slashing
• cleaving
• ribboning
• rupturing
• lacerating
• gashing
• dissecting
• incising
• mangling
• dismembering
• butchering
• hacking

2

as in slicing

to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)

you can see where someone ripped the painting with a penknife

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slicing
• slitting
• slashing
• cutting
• splitting
• bruising
• stabbing
• piercing
• shearing
• tearing
• incising
• gashing
• chopping
• sawing
• severing
• cleaving
• crosscutting
• carving
• rending
• dissecting
• chipping
• scissoring
• mangling
• lacerating
• riving
• butchering
• hacking
• haggling
• chiseling
• hacksawing
• notching
• sectioning
• mincing
• dicing
• amputating
• cutting off
• anatomizing

3

as in rushing

to proceed or move quickly

the car went ripping down the road

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rushing
• flying
• speeding
• hurrying
• scurrying
• traveling
• racing
• zipping
• driving
• trotting
• chasing
• jumping
• tearing
• running
• buzzing
• blowing
• blasting
• scooting
• stepping
• darting
• scuttling
• dashing
• ramming
• zooming
• whirling
• blazing
• bolting
• hurling
• hustling
• shooting
• bowling
• hurtling
• barreling
• jogging
• bundling
• rustling
• humping
• hastening
• nipping
• careening
• rocketing
• pelting
• haring
• cracking (on)
• belting
• careering
• whisking
• breezing
• motoring
• coursing
• bustling
• jetting
• galloping
• beating it
• bombing
• highballing
• hying
• cannonballing
• stepping on it
• getting a move on
• flitting
• making tracks
• scampering
• shaking a leg
• hotfooting (it)
• streaking
• accelerating
• scuffling
• whizzing
• sprinting
• scudding
• stampeding
• overtaking
• outrunning
• quickening
• beetling
• outstripping
• stepping out
• outpacing
• catching up
• arrowing
• fast-forwarding
• beelining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crawling
• creeping
• poking
• dragging
• lingering
• hanging (around or out)
• poking
• lagging
• shuffling
• dawdling
• strolling
• loitering
• sauntering
• ambling
• dallying
• plodding
• lumbering
• slowing (down or up)
• decelerating
• tarrying
• dillydallying

4

as in yanking

to separate or remove by forceful pulling

rip a sheet off the pad of paper

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tearing
• yanking
• grabbing
• pulling
• snatching
• wrenching
• extracting
• wresting
• prying
• cutting (off)
• seizing
• snapping (up)
• severing
• forcing
• lopping (off)
• amputating
• uprooting
• nabbing
• jerking
• nipping
• dissevering
• rooting (out)
• prizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reattaching

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ripping

On Sunday, a severe thunderstorm swept through the Kansas City area, leaving thousands of residents without power, ripping the roof off of one building, and canceling a portion of the annual SantaCaliGon Days festival in Independence. — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2026

Mensah looked as good as the numbers suggested, too, ripping NFL-level throws and distributing the ball to his myriad playmakers, namely wide receiver Malachi Toney. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026

While most of the vandals ripping down automatic license plate readers prefer to go incognito, an Albuquerque character named Jevon Martinez isn’t afraid to show his face. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026

Drops railway temperatures To prevent high-speed aerodynamic forces from ripping the heat shields off, researchers secured the magnetic strips with dual mechanical fasteners. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026

Leonora Ann Darby claims she has been rewarded for saving Obsession by her fellow executive producers ripping her off promised big bucks from the one of the highest-grossing horror movie of all time. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026

Koloffon started the scoring for the Vikings in the ninth minute, taking a pass from Marquez and ripping in a hard shot from 15 yards. — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

The travel stocks have been ripping for three years while this one mostly sat the party out. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026

At the southern end of the Everglades, where marshes and coastal wetlands are most starved for freshwater, peat has started to collapse, ripping open the shallow sawgrass marshes to leave behind deeper pits of open water. — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026