upfold

name

1. A surname.

verb

1. (transitive)To fold up.

   “I lie on my side, head sunk in the pillow, legs upfolded, as if for Indian burial.”

   “The two little boys in the picture wore short pants and short, wide double breasted jackets over white shirts with white upfolded collars and black bow ties that looked terribly uncomfortable judging by the grimace on the chubby faces.”

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.”

   “Thus the Pentland Hills form an anticline of Upper Silurian Rocks (shales and grits), over which the Carboniferous Rocks were upfolded.”

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.”

   “It is the life essence of true womanhood, existing potentially in the child, upfolding with other elements of character until it becomes the softening and ennobling spirit of the adult woman.”

   “The key to upfolding the mass campaign to study and apply the new party Constitution lies in the members of leading groups at all levels taking the lead in studying and applying […]”

   “[…] and encouraged by the three great banners of the general line, the big leap forward and the people's commune, they upfolded a great revolution in education in 1958.”

   “And behind Spenser's poem is a further implication: that in the timeless realm beyond history, in which all things shall one day be upfolded, the imagined and the real will become one, the crooked images be absorbed into their archetypes.”

noun

1. An anticline.

   “In young mountains, upfolds (anticlines) form ridges and downfolds (synclines) form valleys.”