Rip
Rip verb - To cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it.
Scorch
Scorch verb - To burn on the surface.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Invoked but avoided, by nature of the "fight", in the final showdown of The Flight of Dragons: when Ommadon threatens to rip the sun from the sky above and use it to scorch the land, Peter defeats the spell by stating as fact that the "sun" he's reaching for is actually an afterimage.
Source: Grasp the Sun
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Scorch and Rip. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/rip/scorch
Rip & Scorch. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/rip/scorch>.
Scorch or Rip. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/rip/scorch.
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