WRAPPED UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrapped up mean? 

• WRAPPED UP (adjective)
  The adjective WRAPPED UP has 1 sense:

1. deeply devoted to

  Familiarity information: WRAPPED UP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRAPPED UP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deeply devoted to

Synonyms:

bound up; wrapped up

Context example:

is wrapped up in his family

Similar:

committed (bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude)

 Context examples 

She was wrapped up in Beth, and never wished to hear the word love again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I had her carefully wrapped up I put my shoes on her feet and then began very gently to wake her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

February 16 would be a good date to aim to have home-related matters wrapped up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Because of this he could not follow the arguments closely, and he could only guess at and surmise the ideas wrapped up in such strange expressions.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Opposite me was an elderly lady in a great fur cloak, who looked in the dark more like a haystack than a lady, she was wrapped up to such a degree.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There it stands, on its two hind-legs, club in hand, immensely potential, passionate and wrathful and loving, god and mystery and power all wrapped up and around by flesh that bleeds when it is torn and that is good to eat like any flesh.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The pianoforte at which Marianne, wrapped up in her own music and her own thoughts, had by this time forgotten that any body was in the room besides herself, was luckily so near them that Miss Dashwood now judged she might safely, under the shelter of its noise, introduce the interesting subject, without any risk of being heard at the card-table.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, improved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I shall not trouble the reader with the particular account of my reception at this court, which was suitable to the generosity of so great a prince; nor of the difficulties I was in for want of a house and bed, being forced to lie on the ground, wrapped up in my coverlet.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Wrapped up in a shawl, I still carried the unknown little child: I might not lay it down anywhere, however tired were my arms—however much its weight impeded my progress, I must retain it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)