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rounded to

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

Meaning of round to

Verb

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

  1. (dated, intransitive) To turn the head of a ship toward the wind, especially in order to drop speed.
    • In less than an hour she was close to the reef, where she rounded to, and backed her topsails in order to survey the coast.1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island
    Synonyms:
    come to, head up

Questions about rounded to

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

Words near rounded to in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rounded to (page history and authors); round to (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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