All fold synonyms
fold
F f verb fold
- fail β to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- collapse β If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
- curl β If you have curls, your hair is in the form of tight curves and spirals.
- crimp β If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it.
- knit β to make (a garment, fabric, etc.) by interlocking loops of one or more yarns either by hand with knitting needles or by machine.
- bend β When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
- tuck β to put into a small, close, or concealing place: Tuck the money into your wallet.
- wrap β to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- involve β to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- crash β A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
- give β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- yield β to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
- pauper β a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- bust β a raid, search, or arrest by the police
- impoverish β to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- pauperize β to make a pauper of: His extravagance pauperized him.
- pleat β a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- purse β a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- intertwine β Twist or twine together.
- ridge β a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- overlay β to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
- overlap β to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- ruck β a fold or wrinkle; crease.
- replicate β Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- hem β to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
- ruffle β to beat (a drum) in this manner.
- wrinkle β an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation: a new advertising wrinkle.
- lap β the act of lapping liquid.
- furrow β a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- crisp β Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- double β twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- gather β to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- pucker β a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- cockle β Cockles are small edible shellfish.
- plait β a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- groove β a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- crumple β If you crumple something such as paper or cloth, or if it crumples, it is squashed and becomes full of untidy creases and folds.
- plicate β Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- telescope β an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- corrugate β to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
- dog-ear β (in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
- do up β Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- wrap up β something to be wrapped about the person, especially in addition to the usual indoor clothing, as a shawl, scarf, or sweater: an evening wrap.
noun fold
- rumple β to crumple or crush into wrinkles: to rumple a sheet of paper.
- shirring β to draw up or gather (cloth or the like) on three or more parallel threads.
- smocking β a loose, lightweight overgarment worn to protect the clothing while working.
- turn β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- plicature β the act or procedure of folding.
- rimple β a wrinkle.