meaning of ripem
1. A wicker fish basket.
2. To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.
3. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
4. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
5. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
6. A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
7. A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
8. A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
9. RIP 1.
10. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous
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