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4 definitions found for Wrapped
Wrapped WRAPPED, WRAPT, pp. Wound; folded; inclosed.
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, wrapped] 2: giving or marked by complete attention to; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: captive, absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped] 3: enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like; "gaily wrapped gifts" [ant: unwrapped]
Wrap Wrap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrappedor Wrapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrapping.] [OE. wrappen, probably akin to E. warp. [root]144. Cf. Warp.] 1. To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds. 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. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. --Bryant. 2. To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up. I . . . wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. --Milton. 3. To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by. Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. --Carew. To be wrapped up in, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with. Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. --Addison. Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. --Locke.
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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