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rip up

verb

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.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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