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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



... one day that all the paper in the tub was taken out, and laid on the hearth to be burnt. People said it could not be sold at the shop, to wrap up butter and sugar, because it had been written upon. The children in the house stood round the stove; for they wanted to see the paper burn, because it flamed up so prettily, and afterwards, among the ashes, so many red sparks could be seen running one after the other, here and there, ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... have to let me in on that, too. You mustn't be selfish, you know. I'll tell you what we'll do. Send it for Christmas. I'll be home then, and we can fill a box. You get the hat. I'll add a dress and wrap. You buy Duncan a hat and gloves. I'll send him a big overcoat, and we'll put in a lot of little stuff for the babies. Won't that ...
— Freckles • Gene Stratton-Porter
... Grandmother sleeps so well every night now, that before long she will be stronger than ever. Grandmama has not forgotten the cold winter on the Alp and has sent a great many warm covers and shawls to the goatherd's hut. Grandmother can wrap herself up now and will not have to sit shivering ...
— Heidi - (Gift Edition) • Johanna Spyri
... with. They are good to wipe your Backside with. If you don't know the Use of them, they are good to wipe your Arse with. To wipe your Breech with. To wipe your Backside with. They are good to cleanse that Part of the Body that often fouls itself. They are good to wrap Mackrel in. Good to ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus
... was—buy a penny roll, wrap it in calico, bury it in the garden, take it up next day. The sufferer from whooping-cough is then to eat the roll until ...
— Welsh Folk-Lore - a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales • Elias Owen


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