wrapped

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

  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”Synonyms: cloakedclotheddrapedmantled
  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”Synonyms: captiveabsorbedengrossedenwrappedintent
  3. enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like“gaily wrapped gifts”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.] [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]
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