upfold
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
noun
An anticline.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From up- + fold.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: up