rip

rip is a 3-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A wicker fish basket. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A wicker fish basket.
2. transitive verb. To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.
3. transitive verb. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
4. transitive verb. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
5. transitive verb. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
6. noun. A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
7. noun. A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
8. noun. A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
9. noun. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

   "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

   Synonyms: rent, split

10. noun. a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

    Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide

11. noun. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

    "there was a rip in his pants"

    "she had snags in her stockings"

    Synonyms: rent, snag, split, tear

12. noun. a dissolute man in fashionable society

    Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue

13. verb. criticize or abuse strongly and violently

    "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"

14. verb. tear or be torn violently

    "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"

    "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

    Synonyms: pull, rend, rive

15. verb. cut (wood) along the grain
16. verb. move precipitously or violently

    "The tornado ripped along the coast"

Synonyms

rent, split, countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, snag, tear, blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue, pull, rend, rive

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rip:

ipr, pir

Common word forms

rips, ripal, riped, ripen, riper, ripes, ripest, riping, ripped, ripper, ripping

Words from these letters

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