rip up

verb(tr, adverb)

to tear (paper) into small pieces
to annul, cancel, or unilaterally disregard

to dig up, dig into, or remove (a surface): they are ripping up the street

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How to use rip up in a sentence

They want to rip up the safety net, except for the portion that covers those who are already receiving benefits.
Starbucks’ Effort to Solve the Fiscal Cliff Probably Won’t Work | Daniel Gross | December 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
And I guarantee that neither candidate is going to rip up your commuter route and replace it with a unicycle track.
Ask the Blogger: How About That Election? | Megan McArdle | November 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
No conceivable Egyptian government will lightly rip up the peace treaty Sadat signed with Begin.
The End of the Mubarak Era | Bruce Riedel | January 29, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
In a word, he did rip up all that could be said that was unworthy, and in the basest terms they could be spoken in.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel Pepys
I felt that I could go out and about leap the length of a seine-boat or rip up a plank sidewalk.
The Seiners | James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

Mother said I might rip up her pretty blue plaid silk and have it made over.
A Little Girl in Old New York | Amanda Millie Douglas
He will rip up a dog or two, perhaps, and then rush off far away, without showing any further sign of injury.
A History of Champagne | Henry Vizetelly
With a shell of tremendous power they would rip up yards of our makeshift defenses and kill half a dozen of our boys.
Private Peat | Harold R. Peat

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