Definition
To collect or gather (something) together.
In Context
- "The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city."
- "They rounded up a group of experts and got their opinions."
- "In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn."
- "During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps."
- "Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."
Opposite In Meaning
- break up
- disband
- disperse
- dissolve
- give someone the heave-ho