rip
/rɪp/ verb (present participle ripping, past tense and past participle ripped)Definition
› [I, T] to tear quickly and suddenly, or to tear something quickly and suddenly: She ripped her dress getting off her bike. He ripped open the parcel.
rip sth out/off/from, etc › to remove something by pulling it away quickly: Hedges had been ripped out to make larger fields.
› [T] to copy information from a CD onto an MP3 player (= a piece of electronic equipment or a computer program for storing music)
(Definition of rip verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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