ripped
Example Sentences
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“There are families with young kids that they need to provide for,” Jarvis said—workers who depend on jobs that would be “ripped away” should the plant close.
In the narrow streets of Mochi gate, customers hold their paper kites overhead to stop them getting ripped as they squeeze through the crowd and past the occasional slow moving motorbike.
From BBC
The cheating scandal ripped through the sport and sparked international outrage.
That good software companies can be embedded so closely with customers’ business processes that they can’t be easily ripped out.
The Grand Emperor Hotel in Macau said it had ripped up the real gold bricks from its distinctive lobby floor and sold them for around $13 million, cashing in on the metal's market surge.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.