1. to rip or tear open Vin.ii.115.
2. to be destroyed, to fall to pieces (cp. pāṭeti & Pass pāṭiyati in sense of “destroy”) Pv.iv.1#46 (sanghāṭiyo vipātayanti T.; vv.ll. vināsayati & vidālayati; Pv-a.240 explains as Pass. vipāḷiyati [= vipaṭiyati?] with variant reading vidāliyati); Ja.v.33 (reads: muddhā vipphaleyya sattadhā: perhaps the best reading), Ja.v.493 (muddhā vipateyya [sic] sattadhā). See vipphalati.

vi + pāṭeti