ROUND OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does round off mean? 

• ROUND OFF (verb)
  The verb ROUND OFF has 3 senses:

1. make round

2. bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state

3. express as a round number

  Familiarity information: ROUND OFF used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUND OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make round

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

round; round off; round out

Context example:

round the edges

Hypernyms (to "round off" is one way to...):

form; shape (give shape or form to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "round off"):

purse (contract one's lips into a rounded shape)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

brush up; polish; polish up; round; round off

Context example:

polish your social manners

Hypernyms (to "round off" is one way to...):

hone; perfect (make perfect or complete)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Express as a round number

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

round; round down; round off; round out

Context example:

round off the amount

Hypernyms (to "round off" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

In the whirl of our incessant activity, it has often been difficult for me, as the reader has probably observed, to round off my narratives, and to give those final details which the curious might expect.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)