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FOLD UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become folded or folded up
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 other
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
