Wrapped

Definition: Wrapped

Wrapped

Adjective

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".

2. Wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought"; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her totally engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought".

3. Enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like; "gaily wrapped gifts".

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

Date "wrapped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Wrapped

Attention

Adjective: attentive, mindful, observant, regardful; alive to, awake to; observing; Verb: alert, open-eyed; intent on, taken up with, occupied with, engaged in; engrossed in, wrapped in, absorbed, rapt, transfixed, riveted, mesmerized, hypnotized; glued to (the TV); breathless; preoccupied; (inattentive); watchful; (careful); breathless, undistracted, upon the stretch; on the watch; (expectant).

Concealment

Behind a screen; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds; invisible; buried, underground, perdu; secluded.

Inattention

Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping.

Selfishness

Adjective: selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-centered; wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical.

Crosswords: Wrapped

The demolitions committee of Project Mayhem wrapped the foundation columns of a dozen buildings with blasting gelatin (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

You're so wrapped up in layers onion boy, your afraid of your own feelings (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott)

Do you realize I had my dessert wrapped in those papers (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby)

It's not wrapped up in a little heart (Lady Jane; writing credit: Chris Bryant; David Edgar)

The best drink in existence is the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brain smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped 'round a large gold brick (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

I'll be wrapped around your finger (Wrapped Around Your Finger; performing artist: The Police)

You're an all night generator wrapped is stockings and a dress (Bad Medicine; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

Wrapped up in that tarp Earl (Goodbye Earl; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

But the kid's wrapped in jewels, the kid clapped that tool (Can't Deny It; performing artist: Fabolous)

I can't forget that night I saw you in the corner wrapped up tight (Can't Believe; performing artist: Faith Evans)

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other. (references; author: unknown)

Remember, worth and value are not wrapped up in what you do. You are not a human doing. You are a human being. (references; author: unknown)

Gift Wrapped (1952)

All Wrapped Up In Life (2002)

Gift Wrapped (1993)

Wrapped Up In You (performing artist: Garth Brooks)

Wrapped Around Your Finger (performing artist: The Police)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Individual Wrapped Cakes (reference)

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Books

• A Woman Wrapped in Silence: [Poem] (reference)

• Contemporary Wire Wrapped Jewelry (reference)

• Mister Boffo Shrink Wrapped: Shrink Wrapped (reference)

• Wrapped in a Holy Flame: Teachings and Tales of The Hasidic Masters (reference)

• Wrapped in a Ribbon: A Selection of Inspirational Writings (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Girl Who Came Gift Wrapped (reference)

• Wrapped in Glory-Quilts & Bedc (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Wrapped (reference)

• Wrapped in Stillness (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• FENDER Vintage Voltage 10ft. Black and Silver cloth, Gold tip, shrink wrapped plug, INSTRUMENT CABLE (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An older woman stands in a yellow bathroom between a shower and a window, wrapped in a blue towel, drying off. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

In this Hubble telescope picture, a curtain of glowing gas is wrapped around Jupiter's north ... Credit: NASA.

Power source for hoisting steel Jack up truck and use "fifth wheel" This could be dangerous - at least one leg broken by getting wrapped up Safety modifications made to system after individual severely injured Triangulation party of Paul A. Smith. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A starfish wrapped around a rock. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A young tree wrapped in plastic netting for protection. Credit: Carol Kauder.

Poses with Captain Charles F. Pond, USN, Commanding Officer of USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), shortly after Ely had landed his airplane on board the ship, in San Francisco Bay, California, 18 January 1911. Ely's wife, Mabel, is standing beside him, second from the left. The woman at right is probably Captain Pond's wife. Ely, whose landing was the first ever made on a warship, is wearing a leather helmet and goggles. Rubber inner tubes are wrapped around his shoulders to provide floatation in case he landed in the water. Photographed by R.J. Waters & Co. Credit: NAVY.

View of the ship's anchor well, with its cover removed, photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1898. Note anchor chain running out of hause hole and around a roller inside the well, and other chain wrapped around the forward deck bitts. Credit: NAVY.

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma -- Churchill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comic book illustration depicting a diverse group of past and present Americans helping each other prop up a tower wrapped in an American flag beneath a rainbow, following the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City] / E. Credit: Library of Congress.

Transformer manufacture. Flowing at the rate of ninety feet per minute, the flattened copper wire is wrapped with insulating tape by these machines. The workers pictured here stand by ready to change spools. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly sentiment, this transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their sorry "eternal truths," all skin and bone, served to wonderfully increase the sale of their goods amongst such a public. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She allowed him to talk, and arranged the glasses, and wrapped herself up, without opening her lips

She looked at the Queen, who seemed to have suddenly wrapped herself up in wool

[The Guide] says that the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick

Just at that moment, a little oblong package, wrapped in blue paper, fell from a pocket of the coat

He took off his coat and wrapped his shoes in it and slipped the bundle under his arm.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It is easily wrapped around your stomach and held in place under your shirt. (references)

To collect the sweat, the area is covered with a gauze pad or filter paper and wrapped in plastic. (references)

Potatoes which have been baked while wrapped in aluminum foil should be kept hot until served or refrigerated. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

The hospital porter found him in the police car with the seat belt wrapped around his neck. (references)

Georgia

They allegedly struck Romanov on the head and shoulders, burned him on the forehead and face with cigarettes, and beat him with a chair leg wrapped in tape. (references)

Political Economy

AUSTRIA

Labeling requirements: Information is required for most, and all wrapped, foodstuffs identifying the composition of the product, the manufacturer, methods of storage and preparation, and the quantity. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

Additionally, vehicles transporting goods marked for transit which are subject to excise taxes are required to be wrapped in a transit band all the way through Ukrainian territory. (references)

Travel

Nicaragua

Wrapped in a plantain leaf. (references)

Nicaragua

Yoltamal: a tender corn tamale mixed with milk and other ingredients, wrapped in the leaf of the same corn. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "wrapped": be wrapped ♦ be wrapped in ♦ be wrapped in deep thought ♦ be wrapped up ♦ be wrapped up in ♦ bound up involved wrapped up ♦ To be wrapped up in ♦ wrapped in ♦ wrapped in mystery ♦ wrapped up ♦ wrapped up in. Additional references.

Beginning with "wrapped": wrapped-up.

Ending with "wrapped": foil-wrapped, gift-wrapped, well-wrapped.

Containing "wrapped": gift-wrapped purchase, shrink-wrapped software, well-wrapped-up.

Albanian

të thëthirë nga (wrapped up in), i mbyllur në (wrapped up in). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغلف (covered, envelope, enveloped), ‏مغطى (covered, enveloped). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увит с (wrapped up in), увит в (wrapped up in), опакован (packaged, wrapped up), зает (busy, concerned, engaged, full, hired, occupied, wrapped up), погълнат от (wrapped up in). (various references)

Chinese 

包裹 (Package, Wrapping). (various references)

Czech

zabalit do (wrapped up in). (various references)

Danish

reaktortank af forspaendt beton (circumferentially wrapped with tensioned steel cables), en hejsewire,der bruges ved boringer,fremstilles ved at enkeltwirer med lille diameter samles i kordeler,hvorefter flere af disse vikles om en kerne og dermed udgoer den faerdige hejsewire (several of which are then wrapped around a core for the completed wire line, the wire line used for drilling purposes is fabricated by assembling individual small-diameter wires into strands). (various references)

Dutch

de voor het boren gebruikte kabel wordt vervaardigd door een aantal staaldraden tot strengen samen te voegen,die vervolgens op hun beurt om een kern worden geslagen en zo de kabel vormen (several of which are then wrapped around a core for the completed wire line, the wire line used for drilling purposes is fabricated by assembling individual small-diameter wires into strands). (various references)

Finnish

salaperäisyyteen verhottu (wrapped in mystery), peittyä (be coated, be wrapped, become covered), kauniisti pakattuna (decoratively wrapped up), käpertyä (be wrapped up in oneself, curl up, draw up, roll up, shrivel). (various references)

French

enveloppé, entouré, enrobé, couvert. (various references)

German

hüllte ein (enshrouded, muffled), eingewickelt (enveloped), übernommen (taken over, undertaken). (various references)

Greek 

τυλιγμένος (cocooned, coiled). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעולף (overlaid), מחותל (diapered, swatched), עטוי (covered, enveloped), עטוף (cover, covered, enveloped, wrap, wrapping), אפוף (covered). (various references)

Hungarian

vminek él (to be wrapped up in sg), teljesen vkinek él (to be wrapped up in sy), szenteli magát vminek (to be wrapped up in sg, to dedicate oneself to sg), elmerült vmibe (to be wrapped up in sg), elmerül vmibe (to be wrapped up in sg, to sink into sg), egymásnak élnek (to be wrapped up in each other), csak egymásnak élnek (to be wrapped up in each other), belemerül munkájába (to be wrapped up in his work). (various references)

Indonesian

berbalut (handaged). (various references)

Italian

il cavo usato nella perforazione è costruito assiemando singoli fili di piccolo diametro in funi,molte delle quali sono poi avvolte attorno ad un'anima per il completamento del cavo stesso (several of which are then wrapped around a core for the completed wire line, the wire line used for drilling purposes is fabricated by assembling individual small-diameter wires into strands), Avvolto circonferenzialmente con cavi di acciaio in tensione (circumferentially wrapped with tensioned steel cables). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

手巻寿司 (sushi wrapped in nori). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おひねり (wrapped offering), ビニボン (pornographic magazines sold wrapped in plastic), きんぐち (gold-colored paper wrapped around the tip of a cigarette), さくらもち (rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a cherry leaf), うまき (skewered eel roasted and wrapped in fried egg), つつみがね (money tip wrapped in paper), つつみきん (money tip wrapped in paper), かしわもち (rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves), かっぱまき (cucumber sushi wrapped in nori), こもかぶり (beggar, cask wrapped in straw matting), あらまき (fish wrapped inleaves, salted salmon, sparse sowing), てまきずし (sushi wrapped in nori), てっかまき (vinegared rice and sliced raw tuna wrapped in seaweed), ちまき (cake wrapped in bamboo leaves). (various references)

Korean 

감싸는. (various references)

Manx

warpit, soaillit (sissyish, swaddled, swathed), lappit (doubled up), fillit (doubled up, implied, involute, lap-jointed, plaited, rolled). (various references)

Pig Latin

appedwray.(various references)

Portuguese

amarrado circunferencialmente com cabos de aço pré-esforçados (circumferentially wrapped with tensioned steel cables). (various references)

Romanian

fi cufundat în gânduri (be lost in deep thought, be wrapped in deep thought), fi cu totul adâncit în (be wrapped up in), fi cu totul absorbit de (be wrapped up in), depinde în întregime de (be wrapped up in), învãluit în mister (wrapped in mystery). (various references)

Russian 

завертывать обернутый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umotan (shrouded). (various references)

Spanish

sumido en (wrapped up in), estar envuelto en (be wrapped in), estar arrebujado (be wrapped in), estar absorto en (be immersed in, be wrapped in), envuelve (it is wrapped), envuelto en (wrapped up in), envuelto circunferencialmente con cables de acero tensados (circumferentially wrapped with tensioned steel cables), el cable de perforacion es un conjunto constituido por varios cordones,alrededor de un nucleo central;cada cordon a su vez esta compuesto por varios hilos de pequeño diametro (several of which are then wrapped around a core for the completed wire line, the wire line used for drilling purposes is fabricated by assembling individual small-diameter wires into strands), arrebujado (wrapped up). (various references)

Swedish

inslagen (wrapped up). (various references)

Turkish

kendini kaptırmış, dalmış (absorbed, engrossed, immersed, intent, involved, lost in, submersed, wrapt), bürünmüş (wrapped up, wrapt, wrapt up), örtülü (buried, clad, coated, covered, covert, mantled, masked, muffled, shut, submerged, submersed, thick with, under cover, veiled). (various references)

Ukrainian

охоплений (begone). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "wrapped": bewrapped, enwrapped, giftwrapped, inwrapped, prewrapped, rewrapped, unwrapped. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wrapped" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Wappett, warpt, wraped, wrept. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dapper, rapped, wapped, warped.

-2 letters: dewar, drape, padre, paper, pared, pawed, pawer, raped, wader, wared.

-3 letters: aped, aper, awed, dare, dear, draw, drew, pard, pare, pear, perp, prep, rape, read, reap, repp, wade, ward, ware, warp, wear, wrap.

-4 letters: ape, are, awe, dap, daw, dew, ear, era, pad, pap, par, paw, pea, ped, pep.

+2 letters: bewrapped, enwrapped, inwrapped, rewrapped, unwrapped.

+3 letters: prewrapped, wiretapped.

+4 letters: giftwrapped, newspapered, wallpapered.