unwrap

present singular third person unwraps · participle present unwrapping · participle past unwrapped · past unwrapped

1. transitiveTo open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

   “I like your glasses,” she says as she unwraps a platter of brownies. “They’re very hip. Retro, even.”

   2015, Carrie Mesrobian, Cut Both Ways, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, pages 6–7

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   For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.

   1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.

   2010, Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle, page 145

2. intransitiveTo become unwrapped.
3. transitivecomputingTo remove word wrap from.

   Use the SHIFT key to unwrap text.

   1996, Levi Reiss, The Eudora User's Guide, page 246

4. transitivecomputer graphicsTo flatten (a three-dimensional model) into a two-dimensional plane.

plural unwraps

1. An act of unwrapping.

   Each of us, content within / this yuletide season we begin, / the cheerfulness of eager voices, / at each unwrap, a child rejoices.

   2010, Gilbert Goodman, It's Poetry: Suck it Up!, page 17