round sth off
— phrasal verb with round uk/raʊnd/us/raʊnd/verb [ T ]
(SHAPE)
to make something that is pointed or sharp into a smooth, curved shape by rubbing it:
He used a special machine to round off the corners of the old table.
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Making things more or less smooth or straight
- bunch
- bunch (sth) up
- coarsen
- collapse
- creased
- crinkle
- crumple
- fold
- furl
- pucker
- pumice stone
- roll sth up
- roughen
- sand
- sleek
- sleek back/down
- smooth
- steady
- straighten
- straighten up
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(COMPLETE)
to complete an event or activity in a pleasant or satisfactory way:
To round off her education, her father sent her to a Swiss finishing school.
We rounded the meal off with a chocolate and rum cake.
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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