Other forms: unwrapped, unwrapping, unwraps
To unwrap is to pull the paper off a parcel to get at what is inside. Unwrap the present, carefully unwrapped, unwrap the sandwich.
There are two schools about how: tearing and easing the tape, and families divide on it permanently. Figuratively, to unwrap an idea is to take the packaging off an argument and see what is actually being claimed.
1verbunwrapTo pull the paper and tape off a parcel or present.
“The children couldn't wait to unwrap their presents on Christmas morning.”
unwrap is an opening.
Un- plus wrap, in Middle English. Wrap is of uncertain origin.
Middle English
unwrappen
English, today
unwrap
From Middle English unwrappen, equivalent to un- + wrap.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA