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ripping

 
Adjective ripping has 1 sense
  1. rending, ripping, splitting - resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"
    Antonyms: euphonious, euphonous (indirect, via cacophonous)
Verb rip has 4 senses
  1. rend, rip, rive, pull - tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
    --1 is one way to tear, rupture, snap, bust
    Derived forms: noun rip4, noun rip2
    Sample sentence:
    They rip the sheets
  2. rip - move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along the coast"
    --2 is one way to
    tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck
    Sample sentences:
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP
  3. rip - cut (wood) along the grain
    --3 is one way to
    cut
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. rip - criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"
    --4 is one way to
    attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s PP
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