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RIPPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
Example:
helplessly inebriated
Synonyms:
drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped
Classified under:
Similar:
bacchanal; bacchanalian; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)
beery (smelling of beer)
besotted; blind drunk; blotto; cockeyed; crocked; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; stiff; tight; wet (very drunk)
potty; tiddly; tipsy (slightly intoxicated)
bibulous; boozy; drunken; sottish (given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol)
doped; drugged; narcotised; narcotized (under the influence of narcotics)
half-seas-over (British informal for 'intoxicated')
high; mellow (slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana))
hopped-up; stoned (under the influence of narcotics)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb rip
Context examples:
Device packaging that has been opened purposefully or inadvertently thus exposing the device to the outside environment and rendering it unsterile or unclean (e.g. a broken seal or ripped or torn packaging).
(Device Packaging Compromised Evaluation Result Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
So close was it that the point ripped a gash in the jutting edge of his linen cyclas.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Some of these, congregating about the inn-yard while we changed horses, told us of great sheets of lead having been ripped off a high church-tower, and flung into a by-street, which they then blocked up.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Why we’ve got to make the best of the first of it and run down to our boats before our canvas is ripped out of us.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Buck was beset by three huskies, and in a trice his head and shoulders were ripped and slashed.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
With the first slash, Baseek's right ear was ripped into ribbons.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He ripped off his pants' legs to the knees and bound them about his feet.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
This asteroid — about the size of Ceres, one of the largest asteroids in the Solar System — smashed into Mars, ripped off a chunk of the northern hemisphere and left behind a legacy of metallic elements in the planet's interior.
(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I felt the mattress-like growth of beard on my neck, knew that the sleeve of my coat was ripped, that a button was missing from the throat of the blue shirt I wore.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
His hand was wrapped in a bloody handkerchief, and the right trouser leg was ripped from knee to ankle.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
