round out

Make more whole

Round out means to complete or bring to a satisfying fullness.

You round out a meal with dessert, round out a portfolio with diverse investments, or round out a team by adding the skills it lacks: A veteran point guard rounded out their roster.

The phrase suggests filling in what's missing to make something whole.

Round out can also mean to become fuller in shape: His face rounded out as he aged.

completion

complete

Lacking nothing, fully done

wrap up · cap off · fill in · supplement · complement · top off · culminate · crown · clinch · seal

development

develop

Cause gradual growth

hone · improve · perfect · cultivate · enrich · elaborate · shape · sharpen · deepen · fortify

expansion

broaden

Expand in scope

expand · augment · enlarge · amplify · add to · build upon · supplement · bulk up · beef up · shore up

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Opposites
completion and fullness

round outdiminish

To make smaller

reduce · deplete · gut · strip down · hollow out

augmentation vs. reduction

round outcut back

Reduce or curtail

scale down · downsize · curtail · trim · shrink

finishing/perfecting

round outabandon

Leave behind permanently

neglect · mar · undermine · cut short · break off

Family

round, around, ground, out, surround, rounded, surrounded, rounds, surroundings

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G