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rounding on

rounding on is the present participle and gerund 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 rounding on

What is rounding on the present participle and gerund of?
Rounding on is the present participle and gerund of round on.

Words near rounding on in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rounding 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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