ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Uprip

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Uprip is a verb meaning (obsolete or poetic) To rip up; to tear apart.

Meaning

(obsolete or poetic) To rip up; to tear apart.

Example Sentences

Occasionally they force their way into a cabin and uprip its contents.
So fresh the stroke and cut and wound of them / Upripped across her mind and gaped and torn / Along her staggered, unrecovered heart.
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.

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