same as fold
to make something smaller by bending it over on itself more than once
Another three, four steps and his dead legs would fold up under him or something in his head would snap.
Chris had known if they lost him they might as well fold up the project.
His clothes were neatly folded up on a chair.
There's going to be a war, Blake, and all this business could fold up overnight.
Two months later the company folded up.
`The fold-up bike,' he suddenly said, as though snatching this abiding image straight from the ether.
folds up
folding up
folded up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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