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rounding out

rounding out is the present participle and gerund of round out.

Meaning of round out

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To become rounder or plumper.
    • It was Bill all right, but he'd really rounded out since I'd last seen him.
  2. (transitive) To make more complete by adding details.
    • Here are some actual figures to round out the basic report.
    Synonyms:
    flesh out

Questions about rounding out

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

Words near rounding out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rounding out (page history and authors); round out (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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