WRAPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrapped mean? 

• WRAPPED (adjective)
  The adjective WRAPPED has 3 senses:

1. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak

2. giving or marked by complete attention to

3. enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like

  Familiarity information: WRAPPED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRAPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak

Synonyms:

cloaked; clothed; draped; mantled; wrapped

Context example:

cloud-wrapped peaks

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Giving or marked by complete attention to

Synonyms:

absorbed; captive; engrossed; enwrapped; intent; wrapped

Context example:

wrapped in thought

Similar:

attentive ((often followed by 'to') giving care or attention)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like

Context example:

gaily wrapped gifts

Antonym:

unwrapped (not yet wrapped or having the wrapping removed)

 Context examples 

I waited a considerable time for Van Helsing to begin, but he stood as if wrapped in thought.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Mother,” he said, with an impatient bite at the handkerchief in which his hand was wrapped, “you had better take and fire a loaded gun at me.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Because of this he could not follow the arguments closely, and he could only guess at and surmise the ideas wrapped up in such strange expressions.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

February 16 would be a good date to aim to have home-related matters wrapped up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He was wrapped in some sort of cloak which came across the lower part of his face.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Glumdalclitch wrapped it up in her handkerchief, and carried it home in her pocket, to keep among other trinkets, of which the girl was very fond, as children at her age usually are.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The mind recoiled from contemplation of a world beyond this wet veil which wrapped us around.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He roughly divided the gold in halves, caching one half on a prominent ledge, wrapped in a piece of blanket, and returning the other half to the sack.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped cravats about our throats.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the way he passed by a mill, and there sat a raven with broken wings, and out of pity he took him and wrapped him in the skin.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)