| 单词 | rip |
| 释义 | rip (once / 514 pages) 1vn 2n When you rip something, you tear it quickly or forcefully. It's almost always better to rip off a Band-Aid than to peel it off slowly. You can rip a piece of paper in half, or rip a hole in the roof of your tent. When you tear, split, or pull something apart, you rip it. You can also rip figuratively — like when your move to a new city rips you apart from your best friend. A rip off is a bad deal or a swindle, a phrase that's been popular since about 1970, although rip meaning "steal" was used as prison slang much earlier. WORD FAMILYrip: ripped, ripping, rips+/ripping: rippingest, rippingly USAGE EXAMPLES“He ripped up the papers,” Galarza said, recalling that Judge James T. Anthony ordered his lawyer to get ready for a trial. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) He ripped off his tie early in the second half and whirled his arms with increasing ferocity as the game wore on. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Finding it would solve one of science’s most baffling mysteries and explain why galaxies are not ripped apart by stars flying off into deep space. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1v tear or be torn violently The curtain ripped from top to bottom Syn|Hyper pull, rend, rent, rive bust, rupture, snap, tear separate or cause to separate abruptly 2v cut (wood) along the grain Hyper cut separate with or as if with an instrument 3v move precipitously or violently The tornado ripped along the coast Hyper buck, charge, shoot, shoot down, tear move quickly and violently 4v criticize or abuse strongly and violently The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly Hyper assail, assault, attack, lash out, round, snipe attack in speech or writing 5n an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart there was a rip in his pants Syn|Hyper rent, snag, split, tear gap, opening an open or empty space in or between things 6n the act of rending or ripping or splitting something he gave the envelope a vigorous rip Syn|Hyper rent, split tear the act of tearing 7n a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current 2Syn|Hyper countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip turbulence, turbulency unstable flow of a liquid or gas n a dissolute man in fashionable society Syn|Hyper blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue debauchee, libertine, rounder a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained |
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