rips
Pulls fabric apart
Rips is the plural of rip—a tear or split in material: The rips in his jeans were deliberate.
Rips also names the action of tearing: She rips open the envelope.
In surfing and swimming, rips are dangerous currents that pull swimmers away from shore: Watch out for rips near the jetty.
To say someone rips on something means they mock or criticize it harshly.
Dangerous outward current
- undertowSubsurface seaward current
- currentDirected flow of charge
- tideOcean's cyclical swell
- eddyCircular counter-current
drift · stream · flow · surf · swell · ocean · coastal · beach
Bends or tightens
- bulgesOutward swellings or projections
- shreddedTorn into strips
- jackedExtremely muscular, slang
- muscularHaving well-developed sinews
toned · defined · cut · lean · gains · physique · bodybuilding · fitness
Oven-cooks or mocks
- burnsHeat-caused tissue damage
- insultsDisparaging remarks
- slamsForceful closings or criticisms
- attacksAggressive hostile actions
destroys · criticizes · mocks · ridicules · eviscerates · demolishes · skewers · torches
shred
Torn fragment
gash · lacerate · slash · slit · fray · tatter · jagged · puncture · perforate · fabric
riptide
Dangerous outward current
eddy · drift · stream · flow · surf · swell · ocean · coastal · beach · swimming
flexes
Bends or tightens
muscular · toned · defined · cut · lean · gains · physique · bodybuilding · fitness · abs
roasts
Oven-cooks or mocks
attacks · destroys · criticizes · mocks · ridicules · eviscerates · demolishes · skewers · torches · drags
tears
Violent pulls apart
speeds · blazes · barrels · rockets · shoots · hurtles · charges · bolts · dashes · blasts
scratches
Shallow marks from abrasion
turntable · DJ · vinyl · records · beats · decks · scratching · mixing · sampling · hip-hop
- splitssplits, divisions, separations, partings, breaks
- book damagewater damage, torn pages, loose pages, cracked spine, broken spine
- craft flawscracks, tears, holes, stains, gaps
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
- ocean currentsGulf Stream, ocean current, surface currents, deep currents, deep current
- piracysoftware piracy, pirates, torrents, book piracy, buccaneers
- rip offDefraud or overcharge
- ripped offDefrauded or overcharged
- rip upDestroy by tearing apart
- rip outRemove by forceful tearing
- ripping offCheating or overcharging
- seam ripperThread-cutting sewing tool