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 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
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
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
What red hem earth's passion sews, But may be ravenously unripped in hell?
From The Heptalogia by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Milly rose at this hint, took an unripped satin garment off the only vacant seat, and brought the latter to Major Pendennis with one of her finest courtesies.
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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 Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
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