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wrapt

wrapt is the misspelling of rapt.

wrapt is the simple past and past participle of wrap.

Meaning of rapt

Adjective

rapt (comparative more rapt or (less common) rapter, superlative most rapt or (less common) raptest)

  1. (archaic, not comparable) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
    • And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer...
  2. (not comparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
  3. (comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
    • The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
  4. (comparable) Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
    • He was rapt with his exam results.

See all 8 meanings of rapt

Meaning of wrap

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
    • Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.
  2. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
    • A snake wraps itself around its prey.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
    • wise poets that wrap truth in talesa. 1640, Thomas Carew, Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
  4. (intransitive, transitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
    • To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten. (compare wrap up 2)
  5. (transitive, usually, lines, words, text) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
    • I wrapped the text so that I wouldn't need to scroll to the right to read it.
  6. (transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.

See all 17 meanings of wrap

Forms of wrapt

comparativemore wrapt
superlativemost wrapt

Origin of wrapt

From rapt, by overuse of ⟨wr⟩. Compare rack/wrack; see usage notes for rack.

Questions about wrapt

What is wrapt the misspelling of?
Wrapt is the misspelling of rapt.

Words near wrapt in the dictionary

  1. wraps one's arms around
  2. wraps one's brain around
  3. wraps one's head around
  4. wraps one's mind around
  5. wraps up
  6. wrapt
  7. wrapup
  8. wrapups
  9. WRAs
  10. wrasse
  11. wrasses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wrapt (page history and authors); rapt (page history and authors); wrap (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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