folded
SayFOHL-did/ˈfoʊldɪd/UK/ˈfəʊldɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of fold.
The small shop folded after years of mounting debt.
She had folded the map carefully before setting out on the trail.
Note
One regular form covers every job: the simple past, the perfect with have, and the passive with be. Which of these is available depends on the meaning. The transitive uses (paper, arms, ingredients stirred gently) take the passive freely: the letter was folded twice. The informal collapse meaning is intransitive, so a failing shop simply folded, or has folded. It is never 'was folded' by its debts.
folded is a form of fold
fold, verb: To bend material over on itself, often to arrange it neatly or make it smaller. Full entry
- Spelling
- fold → folded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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