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RIP, L. rapio. Eng. reap and rive allied perhaps to the L. crepo.

1. To separate by cutting or tearing to tear or cut open or off to tear off or out by violence as, to rip open a garment by cutting the stitches to rip off the skin of a beast to rip open a sack to rip off the shingles or clapboards of a house to rip up a floor. We never use lacerate in these senses, but apply it to a partial tearing of the skin and flesh.

2. To take out or away by cutting or tearing.

He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.

3. To tear up for search or disclosure or for alteration to search to the bottom with up.

You rip up the original of Scotland.

They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion.

4. To rip out, as an oath. L crepo.

RIP, n.

1. A tearing a place torn laceration.

2. A wicker basket to carry fish in.

3. Refuse. Not in use or local.

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