Rid vs. Rip — What's the Difference?

To cause (someone) to be free from something; relieve or disencumber

A stretch of water in a river, estuary, or tidal channel made rough by waves meeting an opposing current.

Released from an obligation, problem, etc. (usually followed by of).

A rip current.

(transitive) To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance.

A dissolute person.

To banish.

An old or worthless horse.

To kill.

A tear (in paper, etc.).

To save; to rescue; to deliver; - with out of.

A type of strong, rough tide or current.

To free; to clear; to disencumber; - followed by of.

(Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.

To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.

(slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.

To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.

(slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.

Relieve from;

A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.

(slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.

Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.

A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.

Ellipsis of ripsaw.

A joyride.

A wicker basket for fish.

A worthless horse; a nag.

An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.

(transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.

(intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.

(transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.

To move quickly and destructively.

(woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.

To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

To take a "hit" of marijuana.

(slang) To fart.

To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)

To steal; to rip off.

To move or act fast; to rush headlong.

(archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.

To surf extremely well.

A wicker fish basket.

A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.

A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.

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.

To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.

To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; - usually with up.

To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

A dissolute man in fashionable society

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

Tear or be torn violently;

Move precipitously or violently;

Cut (wood) along the grain

Criticize or abuse strongly and violently;