FOLD UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fold up mean? 

• FOLD UP (verb)
  The verb FOLD UP has 2 senses:

1. bend or lay so that one part covers the other

2. become folded or folded up

  Familiarity information: FOLD UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOLD UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bend or lay so that one part covers the other

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

fold; fold up; turn up

Context example:

turn up your collar

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become folded or folded up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fold; fold up

Context example:

The bed folds in a jiffy

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

 Context examples 

Minnie stayed behind to fold up what they had made, and pack it in two baskets.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Emma saw symptoms of it immediately in the expression of her face; and while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady's replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold reticule by her side, saying, with significant nods, We can finish this some other time, you know.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She was not allowed much time for meditation: a monitor, a great rough girl, presently came up, exclaiming in a strong Cumberland accent—Helen Burns, if you don't go and put your drawer in order, and fold up your work this minute, I'll tell Miss Scatcherd to come and look at it!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)