rip

• vt. 引き裂く；のこぎりで切る
• vi. 裂ける、裂ける
• n. 裂け目、割れ目
• n. （リップ）人名；（サー）リップ

原語ゲルマン語*ruppona「引き裂く」「引っ張る」から、PIE*reup「引っ張る」「裂く」「ひったくる」、語源的にはrob「裂く」と同じ。

rip (v.)

"tear apart," c. 1400, probably of North Sea Germanic origin (compare Flemish rippen "strip off roughly," Frisian rippe "to tear, rip") or else from a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish reppa, Danish rippe "to tear, rip"). In either case, from Proto-Germanic *rupjan-, from PIE root *reup-, *reub- "to snatch." Meaning "to slash open" is from 1570s. Related: Ripped; ripping.

In garments we rip along the line at which they were sewed; we tear the texture of the cloth. ... Rend implies great force or violence. [Century Dictionary]

Meaning "to move with slashing force" (1798) is the sense in let her rip, American English colloquial phrase attested from 1853. The noun is attested from 1711. The parachutist's rip cord (1911) originally was a device in ballooning to open a panel and release air.

rip (n.1)

"rough water," 1775, perhaps a special use of rip (v.). Originally of seas; application to rivers is from 1828.

rip (n.2)

"thing of little value," 1815, earlier "inferior or worn-out horse" (1778), perhaps altered from slang rep (1747) "man of loose character; vicious, reckless and worthless person," which itself is perhaps short for reprobate (n.).

1. Underneath this image of normalcy，addiction threatened to rip this family apart.

このすべての正常な表象の下に潜んでいるのは、この家族を四分五裂させる中毒だ。

2."Yaaaaaa,"Carla let rip with the cry of the Valkyries.

「キャーーー」カララは喉を離し、ヴァルキリーのような叫び声を上げた。

I felt the banner rip as we were pushed in opposite directions.

私たちが反対の方向に押されたとき、バナーが引き裂かれたような気がします。

4.If we wrote I think he would rip up the letter.

私たちが手紙を書くと、彼は手紙を粉々に引き裂いてしまうと思います。

5.Next day，Miss Stone decided to sew up the rip .

翌日、ストーンさんは破れたところを縫うことにした。