rounded

Verb

round (third-person singular simple present rounds, present participle rounding, simple past and past participle rounded)

1. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
   • The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
2. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
   • The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC
3. To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
   • She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
   • The exact amount was $101.65, but we rounded it to $100.
5. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
   • Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
6. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
   • As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.

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