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Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive to become rounder, plumper
  2. v. transitive To make more complete by adding details.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. fill out
  2. v. make round
  3. v. express as a round number
  4. v. make bigger or better or more complete

Examples

  • “But whereas the first statement concerning Noah's three sons naturally served to round out the Sethite genealogy, here, by following directly upon the statement of Noah's piety, the object must be to remind the readers of the effect that that piety must have had on his sons.”

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

  • “All they needed to round out the evening would be a nice grass-fire, she didn't think.”

    The Warslayer

  • “When it goes wrong it demonstrates its own error with absolute conclusiveness, for it never works round out of the straight line back towards the true path.”

    Was Christ Born in Bethlehem?

  • “Meanwhile they had their business-affairs, their sober chats on weather probabilities, their staid diversions (which everywhere bored them frightfully), their family jokes, their best and second-best clothes, their flirtations, their petty snobbishnesses, and their perfectly irrational faith in Omnipotence and in the general kindliness of Omnipotence -- all these they had, and made play with, to round out living.”

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions

  • “On the last word he trod on the gas and swung the car round out of the tiny station yard towards Mystery Mile.”

    Mystery Mile

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  • transporter76 When it opens in about three years, the Topography of Terror will round out the picture. Sep 25, 2012

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