noun
Meaning 1
An act of unwrapping.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unwrap
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʌnˈɹæp/
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rhymes with -æp
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 N R AE1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To become unwrapped.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To remove word wrap from.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
Meaning 5
To flatten (a three-dimensional model) into a two-dimensional plane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
Meaning 6
make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold
- The actress won't reveal how old she is
- bring out the truth
- he broke the news to her
- unwrap the evidence in the murder case
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tell
Narrower terms: blackwash, muckrake, blow, out, come out of the closet, come out, spring, betray, bewray, confide, leak, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out, reveal
verb
Meaning 7
remove the outer cover or wrapping of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Let's unwrap the gifts!
- undo the parcel
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: undo
Antonyms: wrap
Broader terms: uncover, expose
History
Etymology
From Middle English unwrappen, equivalent to un- + wrap.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: развивам (razvivam) — undo what is wrapped
- Bulgarian: разопаковам (razopakovam) — undo what is wrapped
- Chinese Mandarin: 解開 /解开 (jiěkāi) — undo what is wrapped
- Danish: pakke ud — undo what is wrapped
- Dutch: uitpakken — undo what is wrapped
- Faroese: pakka upp — undo what is wrapped
- Finnish: purkaa — undo what is wrapped
- French: déballer — undo what is wrapped
- German: auspacken — undo what is wrapped
- German: auswickeln — undo what is wrapped
- German: auseinanderwickeln — undo what is wrapped
- Hungarian: kibont — undo what is wrapped
- Icelandic: taka utan af — undo what is wrapped
- Irish: clúdach a bhaint de — undo what is wrapped
- Japanese: 解く (hodoku) — undo what is wrapped
- Japanese: 開梱する (kaikon suru) — undo what is wrapped
- Manx: neufill — undo what is wrapped
- Manx: foshil magh — undo what is wrapped
- Manx: jee-hoaill — undo what is wrapped
- Māori: tūhura — undo what is wrapped
- Portuguese: desembrulhar — undo what is wrapped
- Romanian: despacheta — undo what is wrapped
- Romanian: desface — undo what is wrapped
- Russian: развора́чивать (razvoráčivatʹ) — undo what is wrapped
- Russian: развёртывать (razvjórtyvatʹ) — undo what is wrapped
- Russian: разверну́ть (razvernútʹ) — undo what is wrapped