double over

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double over (third-person singular simple present doubles over, present participle doubling over, simple past and past participle doubled over)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To bend over at the waist.

   doubled over in pain

   • 2005, Mike Philbin, CHIMERAWORLD #1, page 113:

     A padded knee shattered my balls. I doubled over in the hallway, coughing up blood and yellow stuff I thought might be bile.

   • December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time‎^[1]:

     “Do you have documents on you?” asked one of the guards. “Good, then we’ll know how to mark your grave if you fall behind the convoy.” The joke made his comrades double over with laughter.

2. (transitive, of paper, fabric, etc.) To fold in half.

   He doubled over the sheet of paper and wrote something on the back.