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rounded on

rounded on is the simple past and past participle of round on.

Meaning of round on

Verb

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

  1. (figuratively, sometimes, transitive) To turn and attack someone or something.
    • As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
    Synonyms:
    round upon

Questions about rounded on

What is rounded on the simple past and past participle of?
Rounded on is the simple past and past participle of round on.

Words near rounded on in the dictionary

  1. rounde
  2. rounded
  3. rounded down
  4. rounded in
  5. rounded off
  6. rounded on
  7. rounded out
  8. rounded the Horn
  9. rounded to
  10. rounded up
  11. rounded upon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rounded on (page history and authors); round on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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