fold up

fold up

vb (adverb)

1. (tr) to make smaller or more compact

2. (intr) to collapse, as with laughter or pain

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	fold up - bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" fold, turn up change surface - undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface plicate, pleat - fold into pleats, "Pleat the cloth" crease, furrow, wrinkle - make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle, scrunch - make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" corrugate - fold into ridges; "corrugate iron" pleat, ruffle - pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric" tuck - make a tuck or several folds in; "tuck the fabric"; "tuck in the sheet" crimp, pinch - make ridges into by pinching together cross - fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs" collapse - fold or close up; "fold up your umbrella"; "collapse the music stand"
	2.	fold up - become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy" fold change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" crinkle, rumple, wrinkle, crumple, crease - become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"

Translations

? fold up

vt sep paper → zusammenfalten; blanket also → zusammenlegen