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uprip

verb

Etymology

From up- + rip.

  1. derived from *roub-✻
  2. derived from *rupjaną✻
  3. inherited from rippen
  4. prefixed as uprip — “up + rip”

Definitions

  1. To rip up

    To rip up; to tear apart.

    • Occasionally they force their way into a cabin and uprip its contents.
    • Yet, saving Juan, who in manly wise / Withstood the shameful deed, no man was slain; / His bosom was upripped in woeful guise, / And from its habitance his heart was ta'en.
    • So fresh the stroke and cut and wound of them / Upripped across her mind and gaped and torn / Along her staggered, unrecovered heart.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA