A rent made by ripping or tearing; a laceration; the place so ripped, A wicker basket in which to carry fish, The act of ripping, intransitive verb_ Informal To move quickly or violently, To split or saw (wood) along the grain, To cause to be pulled apart, as by an accident, transitive verb_ 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.

fully prepared or eager, at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge, Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow, verb_ To ripen or mature, transitive verb_ obsolete To mature; to ripen, intransitive verb_ obsolete To ripen; to grow ripe, noun_ agriculture A fruit or vegetable which has ripened, A bank

Height to which one can rise mentally or spiritually; elevation possible to thought or feeling, Elevation; degree of ascent_ as, the rise of a hill or a road, The distance between the crotch and waistband in pants, shorts, or underwear, intransitive verb_ To become stiff and erect, To extend upward; be prominent, To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling

Present participle of rise, noun_ rebellion, organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another, The act of arising from the dead, or of coming to life again; resurrection, adjective_ Ascending, sloping upward, or advancing, Increasing in power or influence, About to begin a certain grade or educational level

a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury, A possible, usually negative, outcome, e.g., a danger, the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred, verb_ expose to a chance of loss or damage, take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome, transitive verb_ To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture, To incur the risk or danger of, To incur the risk of

Plural form of risk, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of risk

A large natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by converging tributaries, A considerable body of water flowing with a perceptible current in a certain definite course or channel, and usually without cessation during the entire year, a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek), verb_ poker To improve one?s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game, transitive verb_ To win a hand in poker by beating (someone) on the basis of the last community card that is turned up, intransitive verb_ obsolete To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl

Plural form of river, verb_ poker Third-person singular simple present indicative form of river

The bank or area alongside a river, a city in southern California, adjective_ At or near the side of a river

a graduate nurse who has passed examinations for registration, a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health, chemistry Symbol for radon