Meaning

A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it..

Definitions by Sense

1. A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.
2. The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped.
3. To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
4. (paleontology, derogatory) To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal soft tissue, yielding a thinner and less accurate representation of the creature.

Example Sentences

Please order another five rolls of shrink-wrap from the supply house.

Please don't damage the shrink-wrap when you are boxing up the items for shipment.

We spent all day shrink-wrapping boxes and now my feet hurt.

Such shrink-wrapped models gave generations of schoolchildren mental images of dinosaurs that are probably much uglier and scrawnier than the creatures were in reality.

Word Forms

• shrink-wraps
• shrink-wrapping
• shrink-wrapped

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Use shrink-wrap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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