Definition of Rip up

1. Verb. Tear into shreds.

Exact synonyms: Shred, Tear Up
Specialized synonyms: Tease
Generic synonyms: Bust, Rupture, Snap, Tear
Derivative terms: Shred, Shred, Shredder

Definition of Rip up

1. Verb. To destroy by ripping. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To move quickly or violently ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rip Up

rip-offs
rip-roaring
rip box
rip boxes
rip current
rip currents
rip into
rip off
rip on
rip out
rip saw
rip saws
rip tide
rip to shreds
rip up (current term)
riparial
riparian
riparian area
riparian buffer
riparian forest
riparian right
riparian wetland
riparians
riparious
ripazepam
ripcord
ripcords
ripe
ripe(p)

Literary usage of Rip up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sermons by Hugh Blair (1822)
"Their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their you/iff men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with ..."

2. Sermons by Hugh Blair (1822)
"... slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. And Hazael said Hut what, is thy servant a dng. that he should do ..."

3. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing [pseud.] of Downingville: Away by Seba] [Smith (1834)
"LETTER X. In which Mr Downing advises Ms uncle Joshua to hold on to his bushel of corn, because the Legislature had begun to ' rip up their ..."

4. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing: Pseud. of Downingville, Away by Seba Smith (1834)
"LETTER X. In which Mr. Downing advises his uncle Joshua to hold on to his bushel of corn, because the Legislature had begun to ' rip up their ..."

5. George Selwyn and His Contemporaries: With Memoirs and Notes by John Heneage Jesse (1882)
"... was bringing about the time when a mercenary, liveried cut-throat, a wretch who waited but the command to "dash the children, and rip up the women with ..."

6. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... the seam has given way. ratkoa rip (up), ... pubu rip a dress up: ~ sauma rip (open) a seam; — vanhoja vaatteita rip up old clothes, ..."

7. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... (myös :) the seam has given way. ratkoa rip (up), ... «auma rip (open) a seam: — vanhoja vaatteita rip up old clothes, ..."

8. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"Allied to Icel. rifa, to rive ; rifa uff, to pull up, rifa afir, to rip up. Allied to rive. ripple (3), to graze slightly. ..."

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