wrap
verb (used with object)
to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed byup ).
has wrapt
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present perfectof wrap (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Ossian has wrapt you in a cloud, a fog, a true Scotch mist.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
Some chance sight or sound has wrapt him away from the young greenness of the May morning, and plunged him deep into the opulent colour of September.
From A Day with Keats by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
But, mother, now a shade has past, Athwart my brightest visions here, A cloud of darkest gloom has wrapt, The remnant of my brief career!
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
But the loneliness and longing still press heavily on him when the cloud which has wrapt him from sight parts suddenly asunder, and Dido and Æneas stand face to face.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene
Many a blue wave has wrapt in its icy shroud the child of misfortune who was unable to bear the shame and reproof of her own conscience.
From Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius by A. J. (Augustine J.) O'Reilly
