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uprip

uprip verb: to rip up; to tear apart.

Verb

uprip (third-person singular simple present uprips, present participle upripping, simple past and past participle upripped)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) To rip up; to tear apart.
    • Occasionally they force their way into a cabin and uprip its contents.1686, D. C. Gordon, Sherriff, Helena, Letter to Governor Clayton, Montana
    • Yet, saving Juan, who in manly wise / Withstood the shameful deed, no man was slain; / His bosom was upripped in woeful guise, / And from its habitance his heart was ta'en.1822, James Hogg, The poetical works of James Hogg, volume 3, page 25

Forms of uprip

third-person singular presentuprips
present participleupripping
past participleupripped
pastupripped

Origin of uprip

From up- + rip.

Questions about uprip

What does uprip mean?
Uprip means to rip up; to tear apart.
What part of speech is uprip?
Uprip is a verb.
What is the past tense of uprip?
The past tense of uprip is upripped.

Words near uprip in the dictionary

  1. uprightish
  2. uprightly
  3. uprightness
  4. uprightnesses
  5. uprights
  6. uprip
  7. upripped
  8. upripping
  9. uprips
  10. upript
  11. uprisal

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