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WRAPPED UP
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deeply devoted to
Example:
is wrapped up in his family
Synonyms:
bound up; wrapped up
Classified under:
Similar:
committed (bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude)
Context examples:
Beth was too shy to enjoy society, and Jo too wrapped up in her to care for anyone else.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
One thing I particularly noticed in this delightful house, was the smell of fish; which was so searching, that when I took out my pocket-handkerchief to wipe my nose, I found it smelt exactly as if it had wrapped up a lobster.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I heard of the difference of sexes, and the birth and growth of children, how the father doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the older child, how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up in the precious charge, how the mind of youth expanded and gained knowledge, of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which bind one human being to another in mutual bonds.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I was confirmed in this idea by the fact of her once or twice coming downstairs on very warm sunny afternoons, and being taken by Miss Temple into the garden; but, on these occasions, I was not allowed to go and speak to her; I only saw her from the schoolroom window, and then not distinctly; for she was much wrapped up, and sat at a distance under the verandah.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It was easy to promise self-abnegation when self was wrapped up in another, and heart and soul were purified by a sweet example.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Few children can eat when excited with the thoughts of a journey; nor could I. Bessie, having pressed me in vain to take a few spoonfuls of the boiled milk and bread she had prepared for me, wrapped up some biscuits in a paper and put them into my bag; then she helped me on with my pelisse and bonnet, and wrapping herself in a shawl, she and I left the nursery.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her sister eating apples and crying over the Heir of Redclyffe, wrapped up in a comforter on an old three-legged sofa by the sunny window.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
