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unripping

unripping is the present participle and gerund of unrip.

Meaning of unrip

Verb

unrip (third-person singular simple present unrips, present participle unripping, simple past and past participle unripped)

  1. (transitive) To open by ripping or tearing.
    • 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 […]1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk

Questions about unripping

What is unripping the present participle and gerund of?
Unripping is the present participle and gerund of unrip.

Words near unripping in the dictionary

  1. unripening
  2. unriper
  3. unripest
  4. unrippable
  5. unripped
  6. unripping
  7. unrippled
  8. unrippling
  9. unripplingly
  10. unrips
  11. unript

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unripping (page history and authors); unrip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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