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Meanings
verb
  • bend (something flexible and relatively flat) over on itself so that one part of it covers another.
    E.g. Sam folded up the map
  • cover or wrap something in (a soft or flexible material).
    E.g. a bag was folded around the book
  • (of an enterprise or organization) cease trading or operating as a result of financial problems.
    E.g. the club folded earlier this year
noun
  • a form or shape produced by the gentle draping of a loose, full garment or piece of cloth.
    E.g. the fabric fell in soft folds
  • a slight hill or hollow in the ground.
    E.g. the house lay in a fold of the hills
  • a line or crease produced in paper or cloth as the result of folding it.
noun
  • a pen or enclosure in a field where livestock, especially sheep, can be kept.
verb
  • shut (livestock) in a fold.
-fold
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Meanings
suffix
  • (forming adjectives and adverbs from cardinal numbers) in an amount multiplied by.
    E.g. threefold
  • (forming adjectives and adverbs from cardinal numbers) consisting of so many parts or facets.
    E.g. twofold

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