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FOLD UP

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become folded or folded upplay

Example:

The bed folds in a jiffy

Synonyms:

fold; fold up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "fold up" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fold up"):

crease; crinkle; crumple; rumple; wrinkle (become wrinkled or crumpled or creased)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence examples:

The sheets didn't fold up

These fabrics fold up easily


Sense 2

Meaning:

Bend or lay so that one part covers the otherplay

Example:

turn up your collar

Synonyms:

fold; fold up; turn up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "fold up" is one way to...):

change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fold up"):

pleat; plicate (fold into pleats)

crease; furrow; wrinkle (make wrinkled or creased)

crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle (make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic)

corrugate (fold into ridges)

pleat; ruffle (pleat or gather into a ruffle)

tuck (make a tuck or several folds in)

crimp; pinch (make ridges into by pinching together)

cross (fold so as to resemble a cross)

collapse (fold or close up)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They fold up the sheets

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