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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By doing this you cannot fail to unrip the seam of any of these transmutations.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey
She scolded Denas for working so slowly, she made her unrip whatever she did.
From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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 Walton, Izaak
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 Haley, Bart
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 Darlow, Thomas Herbert
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
At length Don Raymond observed that one corner of the blue satin lining was unripped; He tore it open hastily, and drew forth a small scrap of paper neither folded or sealed.
From The Monk; a romance by Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)
What red hem earth's passion sews, But may be ravenously unripped in hell?
From The Heptalogia by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Why, Mr. Feigenbaum, my sister had to sew on every one of the buttons, and the side seams came unripped the first week she wore it.
From The Competitive Nephew by Glass, Montague
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