rounded up

Collected into one

Rounded up means gathered together, often with effort or from scattered locations: She rounded up the kids for dinner, Police rounded up the suspects.

It also means adjusted a number upward to a convenient figure: The bill was $47.82, but they rounded up to $48.

To round up cattle is to drive them into a group for counting or moving.

gathered

assembled

Brought together as group

mobilized · herded · convened · mustered · amassed · congregated · grouped · summoned · rallied · clustered

approximation

estimate

Informed guess at quantity

inexact · imprecise · about · nearly · circa · thereabouts · almost · approximate · ceiling · inflated

arrested

detained

Held against one's will

handcuffed · nabbed · busted · collared · incarcerated · confined · imprisoned · suspects · fugitives · wanted

herding

corralled

Gathered into confinement

  • cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
  • livestockDomesticated farm animals
  • sheepWoolly farm animal

horses · mustangs · wrangled · shepherded · penned · flock · herd · pasture · cowboys · ranchers

concluded

finalized

Made permanent and complete

concluded · tied-up · summarized · recapped · adjourned · wrapped · buttoned-up · done

Opposites
gathering/dispersal

rounded upscattered

Spread irregularly about

dispersed · spread out · released · disseminated · broke up

numerical approximation

rounded uprounded down

Reduced to nearest integer

truncated · rounded off

capture/release

rounded upreleased

Set free from confinement

let go · freed · set free · liberated · turned loose

Family

round, surround, rounded, surrounded, rounds, surroundings, surrounding, rounding, roundup

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