Round up meaning
Round up is a phrasal verb that means to locate and bring together a collection of people or animals.
- Past simple
- rounded up
- Past participle
- rounded up
- -ing form
- rounding up
What round up means
find and gatherB2
To locate and bring together a collection of people or animals
The farmer rounded up the cattle before sunset.
Similar phrasal verbs
With round: round off, round on, round something down/up, round out.
With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.
Common questions
What does round up mean?
To locate and bring together a collection of people or animals.
What is the past tense of round up?
Rounded up, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
