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May 27, 2012
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Synonyms for rounded

Verb

1. round, travel, go, move, locomote
usage: wind around; move along a circular course; "round the bend"
2. round, round out, round off, shape, form
usage: make round; "round the edges"
3. surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring, hold, bear, carry, contain
usage: be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village"
4. round, labialize, labialise, pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
usage: pronounce with rounded lips
5. attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault, knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
usage: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
6. polish, round, round off, polish up, brush up, perfect, hone
usage: bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners"
7. round off, round down, round out, round, change, alter, modify
usage: express as a round number; "round off the amount"
8. round, flesh out, fill out, gain, put on
usage: become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out"

Adjective

1. rounded (vs. angular), allantoid, sausage-shaped, almond-shaped, amygdaliform, amygdaloid, amygdaloidal, annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, circular, ringed, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped, aspheric, aspherical, auriform, ear-shaped, crescent(prenominal), crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate, bowfront, cycloid, cycloidal, cylindrical, tube-shaped, tubelike, vasiform, disciform, domed, vaulted, egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate, ellipsoid, ellipsoidal, spheroidal, non-circular, hyperboloidal, lingulate, tongue-shaped, olivelike, olive-like, parabolic, parabolical, paraboloidal, pineal, rotund, terete, umbrellalike, plumlike, rod-shaped, rodlike, elliptic, oblong, spatulate, spatula-shaped, coiled, fat, oblate#1, pumpkin-shaped, prolate#1, watermelon-shaped, round#1, circular
usage: curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"
2. fat, rounded, endomorphic (vs. mesomorphic) (vs. ectomorphic), pyknic
usage: a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks"
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