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ripped into

ripped into is the simple past and past participle of rip into.

Meaning of rip into

Verb

rip into (third-person singular simple present rips into, present participle ripping into, simple past and past participle ripped into)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To verbally attack or criticise.
    • The teacher ripped into Johnny when he found out he had plagiarised.
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic) To start to eat something.
    • Dinner's ready. Rip into it!

Questions about ripped into

What is ripped into the simple past and past participle of?
Ripped into is the simple past and past participle of rip into.

Words near ripped into in the dictionary

  1. ripped a page out of someone's playbook
  2. ripped along
  3. ripped apart
  4. ripped ass
  5. ripped down
  6. ripped into
  7. ripped it up
  8. ripped off
  9. ripped off the band-aid
  10. ripped on
  11. ripped out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ripped into (page history and authors); rip into (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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