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
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
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
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
As for the thin scarlet breeches, they had been unripped by the tailor between the legs, and left at sixes and sevens.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Henry Cabot Lodge
The edge of the blue silk medallions is worked round in button-hole stitch, but so as to be easily unripped when the couvrette has to be cleaned.
From Beeton's Book of Needlework by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
He then asked for my penknife, and, having unripped the bag, took out a large piece of paper closely folded up.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
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