wrapped
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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}.]
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1. To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.
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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.
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Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
--Bryant.
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2. To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to
involve; to infold; -- often with up.
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I . . . wrapt in mist
Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. --Milton.
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3. To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to
involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.
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Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. --Carew.
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{To be wrapped up in}, to be wholly engrossed in; to be
entirely dependent on; to be covered with.
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Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was
wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of
her daughter. --Addison.
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Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . .
are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable
obscurity. --Locke.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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