Assert and Rip

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• A dissolute man in fashionable society.
  • synonyms: rake, rakehell, profligate, blood, roue
• An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.
  • usage: "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
  • synonyms: rent, snag, split, tear
• A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current.
  • synonyms: riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent
• The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.
  • usage: "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
  • synonyms: rent, split

verb

• Tear or be torn violently.
  • usage: "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
  • synonyms: rend, rive, pull
• Move precipitously or violently.
  • usage: "The tornado ripped along the coast"
• Cut (wood) along the grain.
• Criticize or abuse strongly and violently.
  • usage: "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"

• (v.t.) 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.
• (n.) A wicker fish basket.
• (v.t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
• (n.) A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee or a prostitute or a worn-out horse.
• (v.t.) To tear up for search or disclosure or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
• (n.) A rent made by ripping, especially by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
• (v.t.) To get by or as by, cutting or tearing.
• (n.) A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.

(latin) RIP - "requiescat in pace" - may he/she rest in peace