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unrip

[ uhn-rip ]

verb (used with object)

unripped, unripping.
  1. to undo by ripping; rip; ripping; cut or tear open; rip; take apart or detach.
  2. to make known; disclose; reveal.


unrip

/ ʌˈɪ /

verb

  1. to rip open
  2. obsolete.
    to reveal; disclose
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of unrip1

First recorded in 1505–15; un- 2 + rip 1
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Unrip, un-rip′, v.t. to rip up or open.

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For a pamphlet in some popular style that should unrip the black budget of ministerial injustice and lay naked to view the causes of the coming war; that unnatural war that is to sever England and her colonies for ever!

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She scolded Denas for working so slowly, she made her unrip whatever she did.

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The assembled company eyed them with wonder; which you may be sure was not diminished, when they began to unrip the linings and the patches of those old clothes, and as the seams were opened, poured out before them a prodigious quantity of jewels.

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Would she examine it?—would she unrip the lining, just out of feminine curiosity, and sew it up again, pretending that she had not touched it, after the "usual way of women"?

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