uprip

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English

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Etymology

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From up- +‎ rip.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete or poetic) To rip up; to tear apart.
    • 1686, D. C. Gordon, Sherriff, Helena, Letter to Governor Clayton, Montana:
      Occasionally they force their way into a cabin and uprip its contents.
    • 1822, James Hogg, The poetical works of James Hogg, volume 3, page 25:
      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.
    • 1968, John W. Lynch, A Woman Wrapped in Silence, page 72:
      So fresh the stroke and cut and wound of them / Upripped across her mind and gaped and torn / Along her staggered, unrecovered heart.