PLICATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they plicate ... he / she / it plicates

Past simple: plicated

Past participle: plicated

-ing form: plicating

Meaning:

Fold into pleats

Example:

Pleat the cloth

Synonyms:

pleat; plicate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "plicate" is one way to...):

fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

plication (the act of folding in parallel folds)

plication (an angular or rounded shape made by folding)