round up
phrasal verbround somebody/something up
- to find and gather together people, animals or things
- I rounded up a few friends for a party.
- The cattle are rounded up in the evenings.
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- if police or soldiers round up a group of people, they find them and arrest or capture them
- A number of suspects were rounded up and questioned.