rip up

verb

ripped up; ripping up; rips up

transitive verb

: to destroy something by tearing it to pieces

ripped up the letter

Examples of rip up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One and done My plan for this week was to use Morikawa, and that plan was ripped up with one practice driver swing at the Players Championship. —Dennis Esser, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026

Six months after the Florida Department of Transportation ripped up the iconic rainbow crosswalk on South Beach, the City of Miami Beach unveiled a new walkway to commemorate its LGBTQ community Friday morning. —Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026

Even with the seats ripped up in rows and the bleachers bent and cracked into pieces along the lower part of the bowl as the dismantling and sell off gets underway, the place just emanates history. —Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026

Imagine the time and money that would be required to rip up every block of Beijing, Boston, or Buenos Aires. —Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for rip up

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