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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rounded \Round"ed\, adjective (Phonetics) Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 11.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Round \Round\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rounding}.]
1. To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything.
Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber. --Bacon.
The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection. --Addison.
2. To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow. --Shak.
3. To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.
We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. --Shak.
4. To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn.
5. To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing. --Swift.
{To round in} (Naut.) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall. --Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches. [Western U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rounded
adjective
1: curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" [ant: {angular}]
2: a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks" [syn: {fat}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "rounded": Junoesque, abrupt, accented, alveolar, annular, annulate, annulose, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arched, arciform, articulated, assimilated, back, bagging, baggy, ballooning, barytone, bellied, bellying, bellylike, bent, bilabial, billowing, billowy, bloated, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunted, bluntish, bosomy, bowed, broad, built, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, circinate, circular, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, convex, coronary, crownlike, curvesome, curvilinear, curvy, cyclic, cycloid, dental, discoid, disklike, dissimilated, distended, dorsal, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, edgeless, faired, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hillocky, hummocky, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, moutonnee, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, obtuse, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, pneumatic, pointless, posttonic, potbellied, pouching, retroflex, ring-shaped, ringlike, rotund, round, rounded out, semivowel, smoothed, soft, sonant, stacked, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, swelling, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unedged, unpointed, unrounded, unsharp, unsharpened, unstressed, velar, verrucated, verrucose, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, warty, weak, well-developed, wide
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