wrap
/ɹæp/ verb B1- To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
- To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. · A snake wraps itself around its prey.
- To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
- To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie. · To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten. (compare wrap up 2)
- To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line · I wrapped the text so that I wouldn't need to scroll to the right to read it.
- To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum. · The row counter wraps back to zero when no more rows can be inserted.
He/she/it wraps · Past wrapped · Past participle wrapped · -ing form wrapping
Verb forms
- Base form
- wrap
- He/she/it
- wraps
- Past
- wrapped
- Past participle
- wrapped
- -ing form
- wrapping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
When to go out, my nurse doth wrap
He hastily seized the coverlet of his bed, and wrapped it round him.
All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.
I sprang from my bed, wrapped a shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor.
Other matches
Learn wrap in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.