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ripping (root: rip)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective ripping has 1 sense
- ripping(s = adj.all) rending, splitting - resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ripping, adj. Brit. archaic colloq. very enjoyable (a ripping good yarn).
Derivative
rippingly adv.
THESAURUS
ripping
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