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Wrap   /ræp/   Listen
Wrap

verb
(past & past part. wrapped or wrapt; pres. part. wrapping)
1.
Arrange or fold as a cover or protection.  Synonym: wrap up.  "Wrap the present"  Antonym: unwrap.
2.
Arrange or or coil around.  Synonyms: roll, twine, wind.  "Twine the thread around the spool" , "She wrapped her arms around the child"  Antonym: unwind.
3.
Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering.  Synonyms: enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap.
4.
Crash into so as to coil around.
noun
1.
Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person.  Synonym: wrapper.
2.
A sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla.
3.
The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped.  Synonyms: wrapper, wrapping.



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"Wrap" Quotes from Famous Books



... run along," said Marilla indulgently. "Anne Shirley—are you crazy? Come back this instant and put something on you. I might as well call to the wind. She's gone without a cap or wrap. Look at her tearing through the orchard with her hair streaming. It'll be a mercy if she doesn't ...
— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... the one sacrifice, she could have wished to wrap him round with love and tenderness. If he could only have known it, he had never been so near love as then. She had suffered so much herself, and, with increasing weaknesses, had so wished to put off the burden of the flesh, that her whole heart ...
— Ships That Pass In The Night • Beatrice Harraden
... and has lost all command over his temper; he has beaten himself till he is black and blue in several places, and wishes to follow his father into the grave. In short, to make an end of this, the excess of his grief has made me with the utmost speed wrap the corpse in a shroud, for fear the sight, which fed his melancholy, should tempt him ...
— The Blunderer • Moliere
... hole having been made in the middle to put the head through hangs down from the shoulders to the mid leg before and behind; another piece, which is between four and five yards long, and about one yard broad, they wrap round the body in a very easy manner. This cloth is not woven, but is made, like paper, of the macerated fibres of an inner bark spread out and beaten together. Their ornaments are feathers, flowers, pieces of shells, and pearls: The pearls are worn chiefly by the ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... the collector's learning in the art of binding will prove of the greatest use. He will take the patient in his hands, examine him minutely, and write a long prescription which he will slip into the volume opposite the title-page, before proceeding to wrap him up for the journey. It ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan


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