fold
/foʊld/ verb B1- To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself. · Next, fold the paper over, so the right half is on top of the left half.· The newspaper was folded under his arm.
- To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending. · If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.· The clothes were folded by the housekeeper.
- To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid. · Fold the egg whites into the batter.
- To become folded; to form folds. · Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.
- To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed. · The chair folded under his enormous weight.
- To give way on a point or in an argument. · He folded that point and didn't bring it up again.· He kept saying it was my fault, but when I brought up Sausalito, he folded.
- To withdraw from betting.
He/she/it folds · Past folded · Past participle folded · -ing form folding
Verb forms
- Base form
- fold
- He/she/it
- folds
- Past
- folded
- Past participle
- folded
- -ing form
- folding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
But the next morning a note most fearfully and wonderfully twisted and folded, and a small parcel were passed across to Anne.
A young Pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep.
In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure.
But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.
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