RIP UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rip up mean? 

• RIP UP (verb)
  The verb RIP UP has 1 sense:

1. tear into shreds

  Familiarity information: RIP UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIP UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tear into shreds

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

rip up; shred; tear up

Hypernyms (to "rip up" is one way to...):

bust; rupture; snap; tear (separate or cause to separate abruptly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rip up"):

tease (tear into pieces)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

I already knew that the papers were probably in the room, but I had no desire to rip up all the planking and skirting in search of them.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These horrible animals had the boldness to attack me on both sides, and one of them held his fore-feet at my collar; but I had the good fortune to rip up his belly before he could do me any mischief.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That we often put this powder into large hollow balls of iron, and discharged them by an engine into some city we were besieging, which would rip up the pavements, tear the houses to pieces, burst and throw splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of all who came near.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)