5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Wrap \Wrap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrapped}or {Wrapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wrapping}.] [OE. wrappen, probably akin to E. warp. [root]144. Cf. {Warp}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds. [1913 Webster] Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. --John xx. 6, 7. [1913 Webster] Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. --Bryant. [1913 Webster] 2. To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up. [1913 Webster] I . . . wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by. [1913 Webster] Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. --Carew. [1913 Webster] {To be wrapped up in}, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with. [1913 Webster] Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. --Locke. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: wrap n 1: cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person [syn: {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 [syn: {wrapping}, {wrapper}] v 1: arrange or fold as a cover or protection; "wrap the baby before taking her out"; "Wrap the present" [syn: {wrap up}] [ant: {unwrap}] 2: wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool" [syn: {wind}, {roll}, {twine}] [ant: {unwind}] 3: enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: {envelop}, {enfold}, {enwrap}, {enclose}] [also: {wrapping}, {wrapped}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: wrapped adj 1: covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks" [syn: {cloaked}, {clothed}, {draped}, {mantled}] 2: wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought"; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her totally engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: {absorbed}, {engrossed}, {enwrapped}, {intent}, {rapt}] 3: enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like; "gaily wrapped gifts" [ant: {unwrapped}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: wrapped See {wrap} From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 59 Moby Thesaurus words for "wrapped": absorbed, armored, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, compassed, coped, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, deep, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enclosed, encompassed, enfolded, engaged, engrossed, enveloped, environed, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, housed, immersed, lapped, loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, paved, preoccupied, rapt, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, surrounded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped up, wreathed
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