wrapped vs rapt :

wrapped or rapt

When you get deeply involved in a project, you may say you’re wrapped up in it; but if you are entranced or enraptured by something you are “rapt,” not “wrapped.” The word means “carried away” and is used in expressions like “listening with rapt attention,” “rapt expression,” and “rapt in conversation.”

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Definitions
  wrapped
  • v  arrange or fold as a cover or protection
  • v  arrange or or coil around
    She wrapped her arms around the child
  • v  enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
  • v  crash into so as to coil around
    The teenager wrapped his car around the fire hydrant
  • s  covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak
    cloud-wrapped peaks
  • s  giving or marked by complete attention to
    then wrapped in dreams
    wrapped in thought
  • a  enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like
    gaily wrapped gifts
  rapt
  • s  feeling great rapture or delight
News & Articles
  wrapped
  • Chester Bethel Preschool celebrates end of school year
    Chester Bethel wrapped up its 52nd school year and the director and staff thank everyone for such a great year. The year was full of holiday parties, making new friends, sing-alongs, special visitors, field trips, playing and learning. The year was finished off with the anticipated Family Fun Day. It is a day that the students, parents and sibling can come and enjoy the fun of being a kid. There ...
    June 15, 2013 - Garnet Valley Press
  • Prosciutto wrapped shrimp with spinach, artichoke hearts and white beans
    For this edition of Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton cooks up a quick, one-pan meal: prosciutto wrapped shrimp with spinach, artichoke hearts and white beans.
    June 14, 2013 - News 14 Carolina
  • Army Ranger dies during routine parachute drill in Ga., found with cords wrapped around neck
    SAVANNAH, Ga. — An Army Ranger was found dead on the ground with parachute cords wrapped around his neck after a routine training jump in southeast Georgia and commanders hope an investigation will reveal what went wrong, a military spokesman said Friday.
    June 14, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
  rapt
  • Tredyffrin-Easttown board defends plan to cut aides', paras' hours
    Monday night’s Tredyffrin-Easttown School Board Finance Committee meeting had it all: choruses of groans and snickers, a few testy interchanges and interjections, rounds of sustained applause from a rapt audience (one lasted a full 13 seconds), a board member’s political diatribe some found of questionable relevance, and a host of memorable lines with words like “train wreck” and “nobody had ...
    June 16, 2013 - Main Line Suburban Life
  • Tredyffrin-Easttown board defends plan to cut aides', paras' hours
    Monday night’s Tredyffrin-Easttown School Board Finance Committee meeting had it all: choruses of groans and snickers, a few testy interchanges and interjections, rounds of sustained applause from a rapt audience (one lasted a full 13 seconds), a board member’s political diatribe some found of questionable relevance, and a host of memorable lines with words like “train wreck” and “nobody had ...
    June 15, 2013 - Main Line Suburban Life
  • Former NBA player speaks to Breed students on perils of drug use
    LYNN — Rapt Breed Middle School eighth-graders listened to former NBA player Chris Herren as he gave them a no-holds-barred view of his life as a drug addict.
    June 11, 2013 - The Daily Item