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Definition of Rip up
1. Verb. Tear into shreds.
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
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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