"fold up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-fold up.ogg [Australia] Forms: folds up [present, singular, third-person], folding up [participle, present], folded up [participle, past], folded up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} fold up (third-person singular simple present folds up, present participle folding up, simple past and past participle folded up)
  1. (idiomatic) To make or become more compact by folding. Tags: idiomatic Derived forms: fold-up [adjective] Translations (to make more compact): plier (French), replier (French), összehajtogat (Hungarian), whakapeke (Maori), whakakopa (Maori), plegar (Occitan)
    Sense id: en-fold_up-en-verb-USzz3IR7 Disambiguation of 'to make more compact': 91 9
  2. (idiomatic) To go out of business. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-fold_up-en-verb-1WDRyiud Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 91 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 22 78 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 17 83

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fold up meaning in English (2.8kB)

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