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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unwrap
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
open/unwrap a present
▪ Can we open our presents now?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bill finished his sandwich and unwrapped a candy bar.
▪ I just love unwrapping Christmas presents!
▪ Sarah sat down and unwrapped her sandwiches.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I could not bear to unwrap it.
▪ Let the turkey cool before you unwrap it.
▪ She blinked back the tears and made a fanfare out of unwrapping the gift.
▪ She followed behind the men and stood in the doorway and watched them unwrap the object.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unwrap

Unwrap \Un*wrap"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + wrap.] To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
--Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unwrap

late 14c., from un- (2) "opposite of" + wrap (v.). Related: Unwrapped; unwrapping.\n

Wiktionary
unwrap

vb. To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

WordNet
unwrap
  1. v. remove the outer cover or wrapping of; "Let's unwrap the gifts!"; "undo the parcel" [syn: undo] [ant: wrap]

  2. [also: unwrapping, unwrapped]

Usage examples of "unwrap".

She had mailed all three bags simultaneously, the one from the Birth Center, the unwrapped one from the ambulance, and the one she had bribed from the warehouse receptionist.

Of all of them, he lounged at his ease on a couch, dangerous as a hunting leopard, toying idly with the ends of his burnouse that lay unwrapped around his neck.

Strasser deprived himself of the microsecond needed to grab on to a secure hold as the bridge unwrapped itself into the sand.

Charlotte wondered, as the doctor unwrapped the bandages covering her hands and mumbled something about minimizing necrosis and physical therapy.

This is how, we recall, unwrapped strings can yield the zero-mass photon, graviton, and the other massless or near-massless particles, for example.

Godwin unwrapped the tin from a polythene bag that contained its odours and knived chunks of it onto a yellow saucer.

Desdemona opened her silkworm box and unwrapped the white cloth to check on her eggs.

This done, Maxian unwrapped the lantern and sparked the wick to light with a snap of his fingers.

On the third day the trifler is unwrapped and waited upon by a licensed D.

Look at it as they might, wrap and unwrap, twist, twizzle and ponder, it remained as it had begun, an irreducible, if complex, entity.

It held an old bed, a couple of tattered understuffed chairs, a floor lamp, a telephone and a table lamp on a nightstand beside the bed, and a bathroom with pitted porcelain tub, cracked lavatory, and stained toilet, a single towel but no washcloth, and a hand-sized bar of Ivory soap that crackled with age when Johnson unwrapped it.

Now he carefully unwraps the rawhide that binds the spear head into his old haft, and for want of water to moisten it, crams the whole unfragrant mass into his mouth that it may be softened by warmth and saliva.

She took the little package, which was wrapped in a piece of blue silk, from her purse and put it on her pillow while she said her prayers in the dim glimmer of the rushlight, and then, wrapping her nightrail about her and shivering in the unheated room, she tunnelled under the blankets and unwrapped the fabric with some excitement, for she had received few gifts in her life.

Mildred took the grenade from her pocket, unwrapped the tape holding the arming lever in place, then stood and threw the unprimed military charge.

The same reasoning might lead to the conclusion that even unwrapped strings have a minuscule yet nonzero minimum mass.