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Rip apart, in a way
Answer for the clue "Rip apart, in a way ", 8 letters:
unstitch
Word definitions for unstitch in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (cx transitive English) To take out stitches from. 2 (cx transitive figurative English) To unravel or disunite; to cause to come apart.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unstitch \Un*stitch"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + stitch.] To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. --Collier.
Usage examples of unstitch.
Caine and Talann and the amateur surgeon from the Subjects of Cant had taken advantage of his unconsciousness to unstitch his thigh and wash the insect eggs from the wound with the strongest brandy they could find, then resewed it and stitched together the deep slash across his abdomen, as well.
Caine and Talann and the amateur surgeon from the Subjects of Cant had taken advantage of his unconsciousness to unstitch his thigh and wash the insect eggs from the wound with the strongest brandy they could find, then resewed it and stitched together the deep slash across his abdomen, as well.
Her jeans and sweater had been traded in for what looked like large folds of unstitched, unstructured cloth, skirts and overskirts and capes and shawls.
A glance at that dark, unstitched wound and a deep fissure in my brain opens up: all the images and memories that had been laboriously or absent-mindedly assorted, labeled, documented, filed, sealed and stamped break forth pell-mell like ants pouring out of a crack in the sidewalk.
Out of that dark, unstitched wound, that sink of abominations, that cradle of black-thronged cities where the music of ideas is drowned in cold fat, out of strangled Utopias is born a clown, a being divided between beauty and ugliness, between light and chaos, a clown who when he looks down and sidelong is Satan himself and when he looks upward sees a buttered angel, a snail with wings.
Like pieces of unstitched cloth chunks of his body of light slithered and fell away, leaving him a naked bluish form hovering amid the billowing energy waves of the etheric plane.
In the worst cases they unstitched what had been done and did it again, saying, "This'll not do," or, "That's never a run and fell seam.
I shifted my gaze out past the woman's shoulder and saw how the brightness unstitched itself from the waves and scribbled into the sky, magnifying.
His trouser cuffs had been unstitched and extended full length, leaving shriveled indentations where the turned-up folds had been.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Father put them up to the unstitched pillows trick last winter.
A vast line of earthquakes and ugly volcanism was unstitching an eastern continent.
But Ryan was on full-auto now, and his fire line caught the man and followed him, slamming him back against the mirror wall in a twisted body tangle, unstitching him, opening him up as he smashed into the glass, soft pointed bullets and glass shards erupting him into a red rag doll.
The water bag and air bag hung from straps beneath our robes, near a flap that could be unstitched and opened quickly when the bags needed to be refilled.