folded

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: fōldʹĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊldɪd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊldɪd/
• Hyphenation: fold‧ed

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Adjective

folded

1. Having a fold or folds; having undergone folding.
   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 292:

     I got a compartment to myself, and sat with folded arms, looking grayly at the sunlit devastation that flowed past the windows

   • 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, in Friday's Business‎^[1]:

     Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor.

   • 1934 November, Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, chapter I, in Pitcairn’s Island, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 11:

     A cloud of sea birds hovered overhead, the gannets diving with folded wings

   • 1992, Elizabeth Massie, Sineater, page 159:

     Joel swallows his bite of seaburger and opens the folded notebook paper.

Derived terms

• backfolded
• downfolded
• folded mountain
• foldedness
• folded optics
• folded-up
• folded up
• hyperfolded
• malfolded
• microfolded
• superfolded

Verb

folded

1. simple past and past participle of fold