Fold and Unfolded

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Fold verb - To lay one part over or against another part of.

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Unfolded is an antonym for fold.

Nearby Words: folded, folding

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Fold is an antonym for unfolded in topics: develop, make known, spread out.

Nearby Word: unfolding

This is because the house was conceived and built as an unfolded tesseract projected onto 3D space, but an earthquake caused it to fold into a real tesseract.

Source: Bigger on the Inside
Impossibly Compact Folding: a topologist with an interest in magic can fold up all sorts of things into tiny spaces, which can be unfolded later back into their complete form.

Source: Literature / Kraken
In the short story And He Built a Crooked House, a mad architect designs a house in the form of an unfolded tesseract (four-dimensional cube); it is constructed in Southern California; an earthquake causes it to fold up.

Source: Impossibly Compact Folding

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