Wrap Definition
- Secret or concealed:
- Completely immersed or absorbed in:
She is wrapped up in her studies.
- Involved in:
They were wrapped up in criminal activities.
- (kept) secret, concealed, etc.
plans for a surprise party kept under wraps
- devoted to; absorbed or engrossed in (work, etc.)
- involved or implicated in
- to enfold in a covering
- to put on warm clothing
Other Word Forms of Wrap
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Wrap
- under wraps
- wrapped up in
- (kept) under wraps
- wrapped up in
- wrap up
Origin of Wrap
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From Middle English wrappen (“to wrap, fold"), from Old English *wræppan, *wrappan, from Proto-Germanic *wrappanÄ… (“to wrap, turn, twist"), from Proto-Indo-European *werp-, *werb- (“to turn, twist, bend"). Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, lap, fold"), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up"), Danish dialectal vravle (“to wind, wind around"), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch the face"), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap") (from Germanic). More at lap, envelop.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English wrappen wer-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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