folded

English

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

folded

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    • 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

Verb

folded

  1. simple past and past participle of fold