unrip

American  

[uhn-rip] / ʌnˈrɪp /

verb (used with object)

unripped, unripping

1. to undo by ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.

2. to make known; disclose; reveal.

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unrip British  

/ ʌnˈrɪp /

verb

1. to rip open

2. obsolete to reveal; disclose

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Etymology

Origin of unrip

First recorded in 1505–15; un- ² + rip ¹

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Example Sentences

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unrip unripped

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

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

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

They unripped the jacket, and found some moisture left.

From Foul Play by Charles Reade

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