round out

verb

transitive verb

: to bring to completion or fullness : finish out

round out my quartet of Americana with an autobiography

—E. A. Weeks

the republic had rounded out a century of independence

—Sidney Warren

intransitive verb

: to grow round or plump

Word History

Etymology

round entry 6

First Known Use

1856, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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