unwrap

English

Etymology

From Middle English unwrappen, equivalent to un- +‎ wrap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈɹæp/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æp

Verb

unwrap (third-person singular simple present unwraps, present participle unwrapping, simple past and past participle unwrapped)

1. (transitive) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
2. (intransitive) To become unwrapped.
3. (transitive, computing) To remove word wrap from.
   • 1996, Levi Reiss, The Eudora User's Guide, page 246:

     Use the SHIFT key to unwrap text.

Translations

undo what is wrapped

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: развивам (bg) (razvivam), разопаковам (bg) (razopakovam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解開／解开 (zh) (jiěkāi)

• Danish: pakke ud
• Dutch: uitpakken (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: pakka upp
• Finnish: purkaa (fi)
• French: déballer (fr)
• German: auspacken (de), auswickeln (de), auseinanderwickeln
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 解く (ja) (ほどく, hodoku), 開梱する (かいこんする, kaikon suru)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: neufill, foshil magh, jee-hoaill
• Maori: tūhura
• Portuguese: desembrulhar
• Romanian: despacheta (ro), desface (ro)
• Russian: развора́чивать (ru) impf (razvoráčivatʹ), развёртывать (ru) impf (razvjórtyvatʹ), разверну́ть (ru) pf (razvernútʹ),
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

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