The man was folding and unfolding his arms.
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Folding
//ˈfəʊldɪŋ//
Synonyms for "folding" (35 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (17)
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2 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- сгъваем adj (made to fold)
- сгъване noun (action of folding)
Catalan
3 entries- plegable adj (made to fold)
- plegador adj (made to fold)
- plegatge noun (action of folding)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 可折的 adj (made to fold)
- 折疊的 /折叠的 adj (made to fold)
- 折疊 /折叠 noun (action of folding)
Finnish
3 entries- taitettava adj (made to fold)
- taittuva adj (made to fold)
- taittaminen noun (action of folding)
French
4 entries- pliant adj (made to fold)
- rabattable adj (made to fold)
- repliable adj (made to fold)
- pliage noun (action of folding)
German
3 entries- Klapp adj (made to fold)
- Falten noun (action of folding)
- Klappen noun (action of folding)
Japanese
3 entries- 折り畳 adj (made to fold)
- 折ること noun (action of folding)
- 畳むこと noun (action of folding)
Korean
1 entries- 접기 noun (action of folding)
Māori
1 entries- kōpakipaki adj (made to fold)
Russian
4 entries- раскладно́й adj (made to fold)
- складно́й adj (made to fold)
- свёртывание noun (action of folding)
- сгиба́ние noun (action of folding)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sklopiv adj (made to fold)
- склопив adj (made to fold)
Spanish
1 entries- plegable adj (made to fold)
Swedish
4 entries- fällbar adj (made to fold)
- ihopfällbar adj (made to fold)
- ihopvikbar adj (made to fold)
- vikbar adj (made to fold)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Take this folding umbrella with you. It might come in handy.
Source: tatoeba (58171)
I'm all thumbs when it comes to origami, or paper folding.
Source: tatoeba (272499)
I don't have a problem doing the laundry, but I hate folding the clothes.
Source: tatoeba (943858)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.