Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To pronounce (a sound) with the lips in a flattened or neutral position.
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- verb linguistics, transitive To change (a
vowel ) so that it is no longerround .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I was envisioning lopsided, totally unround Oreos ... so I decided it would be better to roll it out like sugar cookies and cut them with small round cutters.
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Anyway, I currently have 39 people on my list which is just a horrible, unround, messy number.
The One With The Empty Friends Page kisobel 2006
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Let us examine just what the effect will be if an imperfect pivot is fitted into an unround hole jewel, and to demonstrate its action more clearly let us exaggerate the defects.
A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material Eugene Edward Hall
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Finally, we unround about $1 billion of received fixed swaps for the quarter.
BB & T CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha 2011
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66 Blue Adept Blue Adept 67 way an unround and pointed ball was apt to do, as if it were a faithful representative of its crazy period of history, and it bounced off the Citizen's knee.
Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981
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(mother-of-pearl) layer of the shell and unround perls.
American Chronicle 2009
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