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UNWRAP
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Irregular inflected forms: unwrapped , unwrapping
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they unwrap ... he / she / it unwraps
Past simple: unwrapped
Past participle: unwrapped
-ing form: unwrapping
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Example:
The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings
Synonyms:
break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "unwrap" is one way to...):
tell (let something be known)
Cause:
break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)
Verb group:
break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unwrap"):
blackwash (bring (information) out of concealment)
muckrake (explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures)
blow (cause to be revealed and jeopardized)
out (reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle)
come out; come out of the closet; out (to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality)
spring (produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly)
betray; bewray (reveal unintentionally)
confide (reveal in private; tell confidentially)
leak (tell anonymously)
babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)
reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 2
Meaning:
Remove the outer cover or wrapping of
Example:
undo the parcel
Synonyms:
undo; unwrap
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "unwrap" is one way to...):
expose; uncover (remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
wrap (arrange or fold as a cover or protection)
