uprip

English

Etymology

up- +‎ rip

Verb

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

1. (obsolete or poetic) To rip up; to tear apart.
   • 1686, D. C. Gordon, Sherriff, Helena, Letter to Governor Clayton, Montana:

     Occasionally they force their way into a cabin and uprip its contents.

   • 1822, James Hogg, The poetical works of James Hogg, volume 3, page 25:

     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.

   • 1968, John W. Lynch, A Woman Wrapped in Silence, page 72:

     So fresh the stroke and cut and wound of them / Upripped across her mind and gaped and torn / Along her staggered, unrecovered heart.