ripping

Pulling fabric apart

Ripping is tearing something apart forcefully: She was ripping open packages on Christmas morning.

To rip into someone is to criticize them harshly.

Ripping also means extracting digital content from a disc or stream: ripping CDs to MP3.

In dated British slang, ripping meant excellent or splendid: What a ripping good time!

speed

fast

Speedy, or skip eating

  • tearingForcibly separating material
  • racingSpeed competition sport
  • zoomingFast movement or magnification

blazing · flying · barreling · hurtling · speeding · rushing · streaking · roaring · bolting · careening

tearing

tear

To pull apart

fabric · seam · fray · tatter · snag · perforation · slit · hole · puncture · rupture

slang

excellent

Of superior quality

wicked · sick · rad · killer · amazing · incredible · stellar · superb · cracking · banging

sawing

saw

Past of perceive

teeth · lumber · plywood · woodworking · sawdust · sawhorse · handsaw · circular · jigsaw · bandsaw

surfing

waves

Traveling energy disturbances

  • barrelHooped cylindrical vessel
  • tubeHollow cylindrical passage
  • carveCut to shape

cutback · curl · face · pocket · lip · section · ride · board · break · swell

intense

fierce

Violently intense or aggressive

savage · brutal · ferocious · vicious · relentless · punishing · grueling · searing · harsh · severe

digital

copying

Reproducing something exactly

  • DVDOptical media format
  • CDOptical data disc
  • encodingConverting data to format

converting · extracting · burning · audio · video · file · mp3 · format · backup · disc

Categories
Opposites
physical action

rippingmending

Restoring damaged items

repairing · sewing · stitching · joining · bonding

QUALITY/EXCELLENCE (British slang)

rippingdreadful

Causing great fear or suffering

awful · lousy · rotten · ghastly · terrible

cutting method

rippingslicing

Cutting into portions

incising · shearing · snipping · trimming

Phrases
Family

rip, ripped, rips

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G