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wrapple

wrapple is the alternative form of wraple.

Meaning of wraple

Verb

wraple (third-person singular simple present wraples, present participle wrapling, simple past and past participle wrapled)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To wrap up, entangle; warp.
    • It is a country of vast expanse and wonderful fertility, and its people are only now awakening from that Rip Van Winkle sleep in which all South America has been wrappled for so long a period.1901, Revista Del Río de La Plata, volume 14, page 29

Forms of wrapple

third-person singular presentwrapples
present participlewrappling
past participlewrappled
pastwrappled

Questions about wrapple

What is wrapple the alternative form of?
Wrapple is the alternative form of wraple.

Words near wrapple in the dictionary

  1. wrapping paper
  2. wrapping papers
  3. wrapping up
  4. wrapping-up
  5. wrappings
  6. wrapple
  7. wrappt
  8. wraprascal
  9. wraprascals
  10. wrapround
  11. wraprounds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wrapple (page history and authors); wraple (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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