wrap upverb

• 1

  To cover or enclose (something) by folding and securing a covering entirely around it.

  • He wrapped up the parcel with brown paper.
  • Let me wrap you up a piece of this pie to take home with you.
• 2

  To conclude or finish completely.

  • Let me wrap up this project before I begin a new one.
  • I've just been handed a note about your — the need for you to leave, and I'll wrap it up in another couple of minutes here.
• 3

  To summarize or recapitulate.

  • The newscaster wrapped up the day's events.
  • Conclusion: Story is clearly wrapped up using general concluding statements such as "and they were together again, happy as can be."
• 4

  To put on abundant clothing as protection from the cold; to bundle up.

  • It's a cold, snowy day and I'm going to wrap up thoroughly before I go sledding.
  • After the bath wrap up well, preferably in woolen garments, until the perspiration ceases.
• 5

  To cocoon; to surround protectively.

  • It is time once again to just let it be; let love wrap you up and take care of you.
  • Let's just say in the past my family's tried to wrap me up in cotton wool, and that drives me crazy.
• 6

  To tie up; to make too busy to respond.

  • And if you haven't seen these things the technicians can absolutely wrap you up in details, and you never find your way out.
  • With the seconds slipping away and the gap just one point, France went through an 18-phase attack that made little ground but resulted in an attacking scrum on the New Zealand 10m line, only for the hosts to steal the ball back when Aurelien Rougerie was wrapped up.
• 7

  To combine, incorporate or encapsulate into one thing.

  • With all this wrapped up into one compact machine, it's easy to see why the versatile veteran has become a Champion of the Underground!
  • He wrapped up into Himself those who would voluntarily acclaim Him their Lord.
• 8

  To hide or cover up.

  • In briefe, all bookes, divinitie except, Are nought but tales of the divels lawes, Poyson wrapt up in sugred words, Mans pride, damnations props, the worlds abuse.
  • The dishonest tradesman wraps up the thousand sins of his daily avaricious life, in the bland smile, the cringing bow, and the false statement which he makes to his customers.