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Wrapped

adjective
1.
Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.  Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled.  "Fog-cloaked meadows" , "A beam draped with cobwebs" , "Cloud-wrapped peaks"
2.
Giving or marked by complete attention to.  Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent.  "Then wrapped in dreams" , "So intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred" , "Rapt with wonder" , "Wrapped in thought"
3.
Enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like.


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"
2.
Arrange or or coil around.  Synonyms: roll, twine, wind.  "Twine the thread around the spool" , "She wrapped her arms around the child"
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.



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"Wrapped" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Moravia and Bohemia are wrapped in obscurity. In 801 Charles the Great endeavoured a forcible conversion of the former country, but with no more than transitory success. Yet in 836 a church was consecrated at Neutra by the Archbishop of Salzburg. A ...
— The Church and the Barbarians - Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 • William Holden Hutton
... from his pocket, carefully wrapped in the folds of his handkerchief. It turned out to be a half-smoked cigarette. Hugh fastened his eyes instantly on some small printing in blue ink, giving the name of the ...
— The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey • Donald Ferguson
... leaned back, tired-like, against the log, and dredged his upper left-hand waistcoat-pocket, and brought up a sovereign wrapped in a pound note. Then he waited for me to speak; but I couldn't. I got my mouth open, but couldn't get ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... strike and to slay, his face grew stern, and he paused no longer, but with his sword he smote her neck with all his might and main. And to the rocky floor the body of Medusa fell with brazen clang, but her head he wrapped in the goatskin, while he turned his eyes away. Aloft then he sprang, and flew swifter than an arrow from the bow ...
— A Book of Myths • Jean Lang
... see them soon," he said very gently; and the next moment, to confirm his words, the door again new open, and Charlie Evson was wrapped in his mother's arms, and strained to her heart, and covered with her kisses, and his bright young face bathed in her tears ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar


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