wrap up

Verb

wrap up (third-person singular simple present wraps up, present participle wrapping up, simple past and past participle wrapped up)

1. (intransitive, transitive) 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.2008, Connie Leonard Geron, Sadie's Freedom
2. (idiomatic, intransitive, transitive) 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.1997, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence, DCI Wrap-up, page 31

   Synonyms:

   finish off, finish up

3. (idiomatic, intransitive, transitive) 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."2012, Rhea Paul, Courtenay Norbury, Language Disorders from Infancy Through Adolescence, page 445
4. (idiomatic, intransitive, transitive) 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.1917, Rasmus Larssen Alsaker, Curing Catarrh, Coughs and Colds, page 41

   Synonyms:

   muffle up

5. (figuratively, idiomatic, intransitive, transitive) 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.1989, Deanna Edwards ·, Grieving: The Pain and the Promise, page 141
   • Let's just say in the past my family's tried to wrap me up in cotton wool, and that drives me crazy.2015, Kate Hardy, Falling for Mr. December, page 99
6. (figuratively, idiomatic, transitive) 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.2008, William D. Cohan, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
   • 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.2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport
7. (transitive) 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!1970, Construction Methods and Equipment - Volume 52, Issues 1-6
   • He wrapped up into Himself those who would voluntarily acclaim Him their Lord.2004, Harold Morton, Too Hot to Handle, page 159
8. (figuratively, transitive) 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.1592, Summer's Last Will and Testament
   • 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.1863, David Thomas, The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people
9. (intransitive, transitive) To curl into a more compact form.
   • Whereas most people open their front doors to find a nicely wrapped newspaper in the morning, Felix found a sleeping armadillo wrapped up into a protective ball.2013, Chuck Pheterson, Blank Slate
   • Mother Elizabeth, her long hair wrapped up into a crowning bundle on her head, glanced up at them sharply from her seat before the restless group.2014, Mandy Hager, Into the Wilderness