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rounded up

Speech parts

1. rounded up - Adjective

2. rounded up - Verb

Meaning

rounded up

simple past and past participle of round up

Of cattle etc.: gathered together as a group.

(mathematics) Of a real number: converted to an integer by having 0.5 added to it, and the result being rounded down.

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Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent? Saul Bellow

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming! Ricky Gervais

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed. Brewster Kahle

I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me. Els Borst

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. Michele Bachmann

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