Upfold
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Upfold is a verb meaning (transitive) To fold up.
Meaning
(transitive) To fold up.
More Meanings
- (intransitive)To create a raised fold.
- (geology) An anticline.
- (rare, transitive and intransitive) To come together in order to form a whole
Example Sentences
I lie on my side, head sunk in the pillow, legs upfolded, as if for Indian burial.
A groove in the cortex is called a fissure or a sulcus, and the upfolded tissue between two sulci is a gyrus.
Thus the Pentland Hills form an anticline of Upper Silurian Rocks (shales and grits), over which the Carboniferous Rocks were upfolded.
[…] and encouraged by the three great banners of the general line, the big leap forward and the people's commune, they upfolded a great revolution in education in 1958.
Word Forms
- upfolds
- upfolding
- upfolded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include uphold, uphill, upward, upfield, upright, rise.
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