to round
- verb
- /raʊnd/
- Specialized
- She made sure to round her lips while practicing the correct pronunciation of the word.
Like this is just a steam inhaler that I put my lips round and I suck on this before every single show.
- Like this is just a steam inhaler that I put my lips round and I suck on this before every single show.
Examples
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The following week, she rounded her mouth every time Lawyer Beagle walked past her desk.
Fiction book (1991) -
Her cheeks rounded as she huffed.
Fiction book (1998) -
Next, Table 4B shows the responses for the lip-rounding incongruent condition.
Academic text (2012) -
The teacher instructed the students to round their lips when pronouncing the vowel sounds.
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To pronounce the word 'food' correctly, you have to round your lips as you say it.
Synonyms
To make a sound with the lips rounded
Idioms
To come together to show strong support for a leader or the country in danger
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To reduce a number to the nearest whole number that is not more than it
- Specialized
To turn the front of a boat away from the wind so it blows from the other side
Compounds
- Literature
A large round table in stories about King Arthur where knights sit as equals
- Literature
A member of King Arthur's court who sits at the Round Table and is brave and fair
- Specialized
A small curved strip of wood or plastic used where a floor meets a wall to hide the gap
- Specialized
A small opening in the inner ear wall that leads to the part that senses sound
- UK
A regular route for delivering newspapers often done by a young person before school
- Literature
A round table where King Arthur and his knights sat as equals
- Specialized
A curved half-circle shape above a door or bridge seen in Roman buildings
Couples perform planned steps while moving in a circle to music guided by a leader
A small tree from East Asia that makes round orange fruits with sweet peel and sour flesh
- Specialized
A cord of tissue on each side of the womb that runs to the outer female genital area
- Specialized
A freshwater fish with a bronze back and white belly from northern lakes and rivers
- Specialized
A way of using the arm that swings out at shoulder height to throw or hit in sports like cricket
- Specialized
A glass container with a round body and a narrow neck used for heating or mixing chemicals
A garden plant with a round bulb and purple flower head used for food and decoration
- Specialized
A North American orchid with two round leaves and greenish white flowers on one stalk
- Specialized
A brown mushroom with a pink stem and smooth round spores that grows on wood
- Specialized
The time it takes for a light signal to travel to a spacecraft or planet and back
A small animal like a rat that lives in Florida wetlands and has a round tail
How Rounded
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Round in phonetics comes from the shape of the lips: to 'round' the lips is to push them into a small circle, and that small circle changes the sound.