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rip up
verb
- to tear (paper) into small pieces
- to annul, cancel, or unilaterally disregard
- to dig up, dig into, or remove (a surface)
they are ripping up the street
Example Sentences
They want to rip up the safety net, except for the portion that covers those who are already receiving benefits.
And I guarantee that neither candidate is going to rip up your commuter route and replace it with a unicycle track.
No conceivable Egyptian government will lightly rip up the peace treaty Sadat signed with Begin.
In a word, he did rip up all that could be said that was unworthy, and in the basest terms they could be spoken in.
I felt that I could go out and about leap the length of a seine-boat or rip up a plank sidewalk.
Mother said I might rip up her pretty blue plaid silk and have it made over.
He will rip up a dog or two, perhaps, and then rush off far away, without showing any further sign of injury.
With a shell of tremendous power they would rip up yards of our makeshift defenses and kill half a dozen of our boys.
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