unwrap

Plural: unwraps

Verb

Verb Forms: unwrapped, unwrapping, unwraps

• To remove the wrapping or covering from something.
• remove the outer cover or wrapping of
  • "Let's unwrap the gifts!"
• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
  • "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
• To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
• To become unwrapped.
• To remove word wrap from.
• To flatten (a three-dimensional model) into a two-dimensional plane.

Noun

• An act of unwrapping.

Examples

• He longed to UNWRAP the mystery of why his opponent kept playing obscure words.

Synonyms

break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, undo

Antonyms

wrap

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