Words similar to ripping

Example sentences for: ripping

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Ripping up anything means destroying it, often by severing the connective tissues, from ripping up floorboards to ripping up a draft card.
According to the same newspaper, Malaysian crime syndicates have been ripping off chicken-deprived Hong Kong gourmets by passing off cheap fish as the highly prized red arowana.
Bennett's most conspicuous failure--his only conspicuous failure, in fact--was his defense of former Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, who is now serving time for ripping off the House Post Office and gift shop.
Japan--"They're ripping us big league."
Without elevating these often petty struggles into a war of "ideas," it may be worth asking: What are these people ripping themselves up about?