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Wrap up   /ræp əp/   Listen
Wrap up

verb
1.
Arrange or fold as a cover or protection.  Synonym: wrap.  "Wrap the present"
2.
Finish a task completely.  Synonyms: clear up, finish off, finish up, get through, mop up, polish off.
3.
Form a cylinder by rolling.  Synonym: roll up.
4.
Clothe, as if for protection from the elements.  Synonym: cover.






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"Wrap up" Quotes from Famous Books



... now be necessary to wrap up the bed with straw, pea-halm, or hay, about eighteen inches wide at the bottom, drawing it in gradually to a foot wide, within three inches of ...
— The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon • Thomas Watkins

... when a man's soul revolts against the dispensations of Providence, and that is when he finds that his wife has been using his flannel trousers to wrap up ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... breakfasts. I have some men that I want to give an early start. They haven't time to come here. Wrap up the best breakfasts you can get together. Put in a jug of coffee and a jug of milk. I will call for the food inside of half an hour. Don't delay a minute ...
— The Circus Boys on the Plains • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... innocently in the marvelous delights of her new life. Georgie was driven over from the Mission by her husband, the next day, in Susan's honor, and carried the fat, loppy baby in for so brief a visit that it was felt hardly worth while to unwrap and wrap up again little Myra Estelle. Mrs. Lancaster had previously, with a burst of tears, informed Susan that Georgie was looking very badly, and that, nursing that heavy child, she should have been spared ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

... 9th I put only water and milk on my table, taking care to wrap up the bottles in white muslin and to tie down the stoppers. Then I rubbed my lips, my beard and my hands with pencil ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne


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