RIPS (OUT) Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

rips (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of rip (out)

as in snarls

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Day to day, as the city grows, there’s also the question of traffic, which snarls the city as public transit initiatives have repeatedly struggled.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Security snarls The TSA PreCheck line at terminal B in LaGuardia Airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, on March 27, 2026.

— Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026

Definition of snarls

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Davis’s letter follows a separate ethics complaint filed by a conservative watchdog group to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics over Slotkin’s University of Chicago remarks, first reported by the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2026
The nylon backpack from 1984, also on display, is still in stores today, remarks Guerra.

— Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of remarks

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But when mother Fumiko (Asami Usuda) comments that their youngest was complaining about never seeing her father (Takahiro Miura) smile, the cracks beneath this veneer of domestic bliss quickly become apparent.

— James Marsh, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026
Our dear old Katie, who used to wake us up every morning with her cheery smile, is now nothing more than a miserable LIB Boomer who comments on Danica Patrick's Instagram posts in the middle of the night.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of comments

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Feed your head Neagley gets off to a sluggish start, with a workmanlike, rather clumsy first episode largely spent establishing the main characters and central plot—and the writers lean a bit too hard on constant Chicago callbacks.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
But if Jackson gets off to a slow start under a new coaching staff, including first-time play-caller Declan Doyle, there’s room to fall.

— Jeff Howe, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of gets off

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The competitiveness of that race, in a midterm year when former President Biden was in the White House, made some question whether Hochul could win a second full term, spurring loud whispers that a progressive challenger should seek to take her out.

— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 3 Nov. 2026
So my heart sank, and Mike Hodges, who’s next to me, whispers in my ear.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of whispers

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