OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 8787

rip

/ɹɪp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desgarrar • rasgar • ripear
To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half o…
to rip a garment; to rip up a floor