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

At the time, Rastinejad and her colleagues wondered whether a black hole’s gravity had ripped up a companion neutron star, as if unseen godly hands had pulled it apart like dough. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

The golf course would be ripped up and rebuilt, including elevating the playing area by several feet to protect against surge flooding. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026

Another whitetail rips up the ground, sending leaves, sticks, and dirt flying from the community scrape. — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026

Spurs ripped up their own rulebook to spend more than £300million on 10 players. — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for rip up

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