Meaning

4 senses
  1. (idiomatic, transitive)To collect or gather (something) together.

    The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.

    They rounded up a group of experts and got their opinions.

    zusammentreiben, zusammentrommeln

    сгоня́тьsgonjátʹ, согна́тьsognátʹ, окружа́тьokružátʹ

    seek out and bring together

  2. To collect or gather (something) together.

    (idiomatic, transitive)To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them.

    In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn.

  3. (idiomatic, informal, transitive)To arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution.

    During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps.

    Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.

  4. (transitive)To round (a number) to the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.

    The total is $24,995 — let's round it up to $25,000.

    aufrunden

    округля́тьokrugljátʹ, округли́тьokruglítʹ

Examples

20 sentences
  1. The cowboys rounded up the herd.

    ruКовбои собрали вместе стадо.

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  2. Sami's men were rounded up and killed.

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  3. The cows were rounded up for milking.

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  4. The cowboys rounded up the herd of cattle.

    ruКовбои собрали вместе стадо.

    deDie Viehhirten trieben eine Herde Kühe zusammen.

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  5. Flavio’s family was rounded up by the legionnaires.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to collect or gather (something) together:
to round up a number:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to collect or gather (something) together:
to round up a number:

Forms

rounds up, rounding up, rounded up, rounded up
Base formround up · to round up
3rd person singularrounds up
Present participlerounding up
Past simplerounded up
Past participlerounded up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyround up
he, she, itrounds up

Past simpleLesson

all personsrounded up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave rounded up
he, she, ithas rounded up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill round up

Phrasal verbs

7 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

17 synonyms

Antonyms

6 antonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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