unrip

[uhn-rip]

verb (used with object)

unripped, unripping 

1. to undo by ripping; rip; ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.

2. to make known; disclose; reveal.

unrip

/ ʌnˈrɪp /

verb

1. to rip open

2. obsolete,  to reveal; disclose

Word History and Origins

Origin of unrip¹

First recorded in 1505–15; un- ² + rip ¹

Example Sentences

Unrip, un-rip′, v.t. to rip up or open.

From Project Gutenberg

For a pamphlet in some popular style that should unrip the black budget of ministerial injustice and lay naked to view the causes of the coming war; that unnatural war that is to sever England and her colonies for ever!

From Project Gutenberg

She scolded Denas for working so slowly, she made her unrip whatever she did.

From Project Gutenberg

The assembled company eyed them with wonder; which you may be sure was not diminished, when they began to unrip the linings and the patches of those old clothes, and as the seams were opened, poured out before them a prodigious quantity of jewels.

From Project Gutenberg

Would she examine it?—would she unrip the lining, just out of feminine curiosity, and sew it up again, pretending that she had not touched it, after the "usual way of women"?

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