verb
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to rip open
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obsolete to reveal; disclose
Etymology
Origin of unrip
Example Sentences
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When these were gone, we heard as high a contention amongst the beggars, whether it was easiest to rip a cloak, or to unrip a cloak ?
From The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
She scolded Denas for working so slowly, she made her unrip whatever she did.
From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
He then asked me for my penknife and proceeded to unrip the bag, and took out of it a large piece of paper closely folded up.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow
By doing this you cannot fail to unrip the seam of any of these transmutations.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
I've got a sewing kit in the car—we'll unrip the upholstery and I can stitch you up a suit in no time.
From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Bart Haley
This will work until you run out of unripped towels.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were two unripped dots: one looked like Los Angeles, although there were a bunch of towns clustered so close together in Southern California that the type overlapped.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
He unripped a certain part of his straw mattress and took out a bag of gold.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
Her father sat reading at the table; and I, on purpose, had sought a bit of work in some unripped fringes of the window-curtain, keeping my eye steadily fixed on her proceedings.
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
At this the wanton blushed, as being abashed to think what news should come from an unknown shepherdess; but taking the letters, unripped the seals, and read over the discourse of Phoebe's fancies.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Edward Chauncey Baldwin
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