upfolding

Verb

upfold (third-person singular simple present upfolds, present participle upfolding, simple past and past participle upfolded)

1. (transitive) To fold up.
   • I lie on my side, head sunk in the pillow, legs upfolded, as if for Indian burial.2003, May Swenson, The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson, →ISBN, page 133
2. (intransitive) To create a raised fold.
   • A groove in the cortex is called a fissure or a sulcus, and the upfolded tissue between two sulci is a gyrus.2012, Michael A. Arbib, How the Brain Got Language: The Mirror System Hypothesis, →ISBN, page 91
3. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To come together in order to form a whole
   • It was the merciless upfolding of that glorious transfiguration pageant, in which the corruptible was seen putting on incorruption, and the mortal clothing itself with immortality.1869, The Church Seasons Historically and Poetically Illustrated, page 480

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