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rounded adjective [ ˈraʊndɪd ]

• having a smooth, curved surface.
• "rounded grey hills"
• well developed in all aspects; complete and balanced.
• "we should educate children to become rounded human beings"

round verb

• pass and go round (something) so as to move on in a changed direction.
• "the ship rounded the cape and sailed north"
Similar: go round, move round, travel round, sail round, circumnavigate, orbit, skirt,
• alter (a number) to one less exact but more convenient for calculations.
• "we'll round the weight up to the nearest kilo"
• give a round shape to.
• "a lathe that rounded chair legs"
Origin: Middle English: from the Old French stem round-, from a variant of Latin rotundus ‘rotund’.


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