Fold Synonyms and Antonyms

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Folded material
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. folding
  2. lap
  3. pleat
  4. plait
  5. lapel
  6. tuck
  7. overlap
  8. folded portion
  9. part turned over
  10. part turned back
  11. shirring
  12. smocking
  13. gathers
  14. gatherings
  15. doubled material
Antonyms:
  1. unfolding
Animal pen
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cage
  2. corral
  3. sheepfold
  4. flock
  5. coop
  6. sheep-pen
  7. sheepcote
To give in from or as if from a gradual loss of strength
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bow
  2. buckle
  3. capitulate
  4. submit
  5. succumb
  6. surrender
  7. yield
The line at which material is folded
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. crease
  2. crimp
  3. plica
  4. pleat
  5. plication
  6. wrinkle
  7. plait
  8. turn
  9. folded edge
  10. crinkle
  11. congregation
  12. crumple
  13. convolution
  14. cote
  15. knife-edge
  16. doubling
  17. pucker
  18. embrace
  19. rimple
  20. ruck
  21. gyri
  22. corrugation
  23. rumple
  24. flexure
  25. sheep-pen
  26. volution
  27. bend
Antonyms:
  1. flatness
*To fail
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fail
  2. collapse
  3. go out of business
  4. break
  5. bust
  6. close
  7. crash
  8. go under
Antonyms:
  1. succeed
  2. achieve
A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. congregation
  2. faithful
Confine in a fold, like sheep
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pen-up
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. corrugated
  2. folded

Words Related to Fold

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Fold Sentence Examples

  • I took it off so I could fold these towels.

  • Cassie played with a fold in her dress.

  • The transverse fold of the hind-wing is towards the tip, about two-thirds of the wing-length from the base.

  • The great monoclinal fold which formed the eastern face of the east Australian highlands, west of Sydney, is of later age.

  • At this fold the median nervure stops and is joined by a cross nervure to the radial, which can be distinguished throughout its length from the subcostal.

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