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Synonyms for ripping

The synonym for ripping recorded in this bank is splitting, in the sense "resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line

The synonym for ripping

splittingadjective, in the sense "resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for ripping.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, Treeline

resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree

The tree split with a great ripping sound.

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The true synonym

splitting

Same sentence, swapped: The tree split with a great splitting sound.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

splendid
smashing
stunning

Where ripping turns up in the game

ripping is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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