rip up
Britishverb
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to tear (paper) into small pieces
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to annul, cancel, or unilaterally disregard
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to dig up, dig into, or remove (a surface)
they are ripping up the street
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The Guardian tops with Burnham ordering his policy advisers "to rip up their plans for how to fix Thames Water and present him with more radical options for what to do with the stricken company".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Homeowners have to rip up their whole bathroom or driveway if something goes wrong with their heated floors, Christian Perry, a Greenwich, Conn.-based real-estate agent, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
He was going to rip up the Wolverines’ roster and start from scratch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
I got to rip up the chunky gravel Richard Martin trail through Elkmont, where locals served us chicken stew and banana pudding.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2025
Sometimes we would rip up a section of track and fix it.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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