unwrap

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

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈɹæp/

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• Rhymes: -æp

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.
   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

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.

4. (transitive, computer graphics) To flatten (a three-dimensional model) into a two-dimensional plane.

unwrap (plural unwraps)

1. An act of unwrapping.
   • 2010, Gilbert Goodman, It's Poetry: Suck it Up!, page 17:

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

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