rip
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a dissolute man in fashionable society
Types & categories
- rounder hypernym
Related & opposite
- libertine derivation
Sense 2 verb
tear or be torn violently
The curtain ripped from top to bottom
Types & categories
- rupture hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
there was a rip in his pants
Types & categories
- opening hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
move precipitously or violently
The tornado ripped along the coast
Types & categories
- shoot down hypernym
Sense 5 noun
a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
Types & categories
- turbulence hypernym
Sense 6 verb
cut (wood) along the grain
Types & categories
- cut hypernym
Sense 7 noun
the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
he gave the envelope a vigorous rip
Types & categories
- tear hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 8 verb
criticize or abuse strongly and violently
The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly
Types & categories
- lash out hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | libertine |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | rounder |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tear |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | rupture |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | tear |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | cleave |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | rip |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | rupture |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | opening |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | shoot down |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | turbulence |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | cut |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | cleave |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | rip |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | tear |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | lash out |