fold

If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.

Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.

The chair folded under his enormous weight.

He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set as steel.

With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.

Fold the egg whites into the batter.

The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.

He folded his arms in defiance.

I will not poyſon thee with my attaint, / Nor fold my fault in cleanly coin’d excuſes, / My ſable ground of ſinne I will not paint, / To hide the truth of this falſe nights abuſes.