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Unwrapped

adjective

Not yet wrapped or having the wrapping removed. "The floor around the tree was littered with gifts already unwrapped"

Unwrap

verb

Remove the outer cover or wrapping of. Synonym: undo. "Undo the parcel"

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret. Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal. "The actress won't reveal how old she is" , "Bring out the truth" , "He broke the news to her" , "Unwrap the evidence in the murder case"

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"Unwrapped" Quotes from Famous Books

... everybody else. I am receiving a fine price for those horses, so it is worth a little risk. Now, senor," he addressed himself to the Ranger, "I have brought you a little present. Day and night my boys and I have worked upon it, for we know the good heart you have. It was finished yesterday. See!" Ricardo unwrapped a bundle he had fetched, displaying a magnificent bridle of plaited horsehair. It was cunningly wrought, and lavishly decorated with silver fittings. "You recognize those hairs?" he queried. "They came from the mane and ...

— Heart of the Sunset • Rex Beach

... started on the job Louis and Mike were frankly indifferent. They might just as well have been unwrapping herring cases. And they were exceedingly efficient. They unwrapped them and catalogued them as ...

— A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago • Ben Hecht

... I held out my hand, but he ignored it, and, picking up a fearsome-looking instrument consisting of blades, hooks and points—which turned out to be the official cutter—severed the silly little bit of string, unwrapped the paper and disclosed a white wooden box ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 • Various

... rested on the Bologna sausage, one end of which protruded from the holster; then there came over him a poignant recollection of his Lenten supper of the night before and his no breakfast at all of that morning. He seated himself on the saddle, unwrapped the sausage, and proceeded to cut from it two ...

— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... panther decreased, the boys began to feel hungry and tired. The venison was unwrapped and some thick steaks were cut off and broiled over the fire, and from them the lads ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

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