WordNet sense 1 (a dissolute man in fashionable society):

blood, profligate, rake, roue, rakehell

WordNet sense 2 (an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart):

rent, snag, split, tear, tear

WordNet sense 3 (a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current):

crosscurrent, riptide, countercurrent, tide rip

WordNet sense 4 (tear or be torn violently):

pull, rend, rive