rip up

phrasal verb

ripped up; ripping up; rips up

: to completely destroy (something) by tearing it into pieces

He ripped up the check.

She ripped the letter up into tiny pieces.

Examples of rip up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Rose Garden renovation, which involved ripping up sod and replacing it with a stone, had been going on all summer. —Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025

The teenager ripped up the record books on Monday night by becoming the club’s youngest ever goalscorer, aged 16 years and 361 days, with a last-gasp winner at Newcastle United. —Gregg Evans, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025

Committing over 100 hours, the Class of 2026 Ticktockers executed demolition including removal of old fixtures and ripping up carpet and then started the refurbishment project. —News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025

Tait's boyfriend Erik rips up the carpet in the viral video. —Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for rip up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup