Unwrap

Definition: Unwrap

Unwrap

Verb

1. Remove the outer cover or wrapping of; "Let's unwrap the gifts!"; "undo the parcel".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unwrap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Public Administration

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Synonym: Unwrap

Straightness

Render straight, straighten, rectify; set straight, put straight; unbend, unfold, uncurl; unravel; unwrap.

Crosswords: Unwrap

You mean where you unwrap them and stick them in the microwave? (She-Wolf of London; writing credit: Hans Beimler)

But when we came to handle all her clothes and her jewels and her toilet things -- you know they buried everything with them that they used in life? -- well, when we came to unwrap the girl herself-- (The Mummy; writing credit: Nina Wilcox Putnam; Richard Schayer)

Now The only thing his daughter has to unwrap is her father's bodybag! (Faces of Gore; writing credit: Todd Tjersland)

Unwrap yourself from around my finger (Too Much; performing artist: Spice Girls)

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Books

• Birthday Surprises: Ten Great Stories to Unwrap (reference)

• The Gift of Happiness Belongs to Those Who Unwrap It (reference)

• Unwrap the Mummy (reference)

• Unwrap the Mummy: A Four-Foot-Long, Fact-Filled, Pop-Up Mummy to Explore (reference)

• Unwrap Your Business Presence: A Practical Approach to Business Speaking (reference)

  (more book examples)

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She heard him unwrap his tin plate.

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Albanian

hap (anatomize, cave, detect, dig, disclose, display, dissect, distribute, drive, expand, footstep, inaugurate, move, open, open up, pace, peg, pitch, remove, roll out, spread, start, step, stretch, strew, turn down, turn on, unblock, unbolt, unbosom, uncap, unclasp, unclench, unclose, uncork, uncover, undo, undraw, unfurl, unhook, unlatch, unlock, unreel, unseal, unshutter, walk), çmbështjell. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فض (adjourn, adjournment, breaking, close, scattering, unfold), ‏نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgate, promulgation, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll), ‏بسط (couch, distend, expand, expound, extend, extension, facilitate, fine, lay, reach, simplify, spread, state, stretch, unroll, unwind, vulgarize). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развивам (cultivate, develop, do, educate, evolve, make, pay out, push, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, ungird, unreel, unroll, unswathe, unwind, wind off, work up), разопаковам (uncase, unpack), отварям (blow in, break out, open, open up, put up, tear open, throw in, throw open, turn on, unbolt, undo, unseal, unstop), отвивам (uncover, unwind). (various references)

Chinese 

解开 (Disengaged, Disengaging, unbuckle, Undid, undo, undoing, undone, unfasten, unfastened, unfastening, unhook, Unhooked, unleash, Unlink, unravel, untangle, untangled, untangling, untie, untied, Untighten, untying, unwind, unwinding, unwound, unwrapped). (various references)

Czech

rozbalit (unpack, unroll, untie). (various references)

Dutch

uitpakken (unpack). (various references)

Farsi 

واپیچیدن (Unwreathe), صاف کردن (Clear, Even, Face, Fine, Hone, Pave, Percolate, Perk, Plane, Serene, Sleek, Smooth, Strain, Urbanize), ازادکردن (Assert, Deliver, Ease, Extricate, Free, Liberate, Release, Uncage, Unfasten, Unfix, Unhitch, Unloose, Unstring, Unyoke). (various references)

Finnish

kietoa auki, kääriä auki, avata (inaugurate, open, switch on, turn on, unbuckle, unbutton, uncork, undo, unfasten, unhook, unlock, unstrap, untie). (various references)

French

déballer (unpack). (various references)

German

auspacken (do one's unpacking, speak smb.'s mind, unbox, unpack, unpacking), auswickeln (unswaddle). (various references)

Greek 

ξεδιπλώνω (unfold, unfurl), εκτυλίσσω (uncoil, unravel, unwind). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סיר מעט�" (unmask). (various references)

Hungarian

kicsomagol (to unpack, unpack), kibont (extricate, let down, loosen, to break open, to disassemble, to disentangle, to loose, to loosen, to solve, to unfold, to unfurl, to unknot, to unloose, to unpin, to untie, to untwist, uncurl, undo, unfurl, unpin). (various references)

Italian

scartare (discard, dismiss, reject, scrap, sweep aside, swerve), disfare (defeat, destroy, melt, take down, undo, unfasten, unmake, unpack, unravel, untie, wreck). (various references)

Pig Latin

apunwray

Portuguese

desfazer o invólucro de, desempacotar (unpack), desembrulhar (disembroil, disentangle, open, unpack). (various references)

Romanian

desface un pachet. (various references)

Russian 

снимать обертку, разворачивать (unwind). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razmotati (unfold, unfurl, unswathe, unwind). (various references)

Spanish

desenvolver (develop, evolve, open, to develop, to device, unfold, unwind). (various references)

Swedish

packa upp (extract, unpack, unpacking, unzip). (various references)

Turkish

paketini açmak, açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, usher in, whet, whiten, wind). (various references)

Ukrainian

розгортатися (deploy, escalate, open, unfold, unroll), розгортати (deploy, escalate, open, open out, unfold, unfurl, unroll). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "unwrap": unwrapped, unwrapping, unwraps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Unwrap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anwarpe, Nuwara, nwrac, Onwurah, Ungraph, untra. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: prawn.

-2 letters: pawn, prau, puna, warn, warp, waur, wrap.

-3 letters: awn, nap, naw, pan, par, paw, pun, pur, ran, rap, raw, run, urn, wan, wap, war.

-4 letters: an, ar, aw, na, nu, pa, un, up.

+1 letter: unwraps.

+2 letters: unwarped.

+3 letters: unwrapped.

+4 letters: superwoman, unwrapping, upwardness, wraparound.

+5 letters: superweapon, wraparounds.

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