uprip

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verb

To rip up; to tear apart.

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Meanings

verbuprip (third-person singular simple present uprips, present participle upripping, simple past and past participle upripped)

present singular third person uprips · participle present upripping · participle past upripped · past upripped

  1. obsoletepoeticTo rip up; to tear apart.

    Occasionally they force their way into a cabin and uprip its contents.

    1686, D. C. Gordon, Sherriff, Helena, Letter to Governor Clayton, Montana
    2 more examples

    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.

    1822, James Hogg, The poetical works of James Hogg, volume 3, page 25

    So fresh the stroke and cut and wound of them / Upripped across her mind and gaped and torn / Along her staggered, unrecovered heart.

    1968, John W. Lynch, A Woman Wrapped in Silence, page 72

Origin

From up- + rip.

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Chicago

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