round
verb/raʊnd/
/raʊnd/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they round | /raʊnd/ /raʊnd/ |
| he / she / it rounds | /raʊndz/ /raʊndz/ |
| past simple rounded | /ˈraʊndɪd/ /ˈraʊndɪd/ |
| past participle rounded | /ˈraʊndɪd/ /ˈraʊndɪd/ |
| -ing form rounding | /ˈraʊndɪŋ/ /ˈraʊndɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] round something to go around a corner of a building, a bend in the road, etc.
- The boat rounded the tip of the island.
- We rounded the bend at high speed.
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- [transitive, intransitive] round (something) to make something into a round shape; to form into a round shape
- She rounded her lips and whistled.
- His eyes rounded with horror.
- [transitive] round something (up/down) (to something) to increase or decrease a number to the next highest or lowest whole number
Word OriginMiddle English: from the Old French stem round-, from a variant of Latin rotundus ‘rotund’.
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