round down
(tr, adverb) to lower (a number) to the nearest whole number or ten, hundred, or thousand below it: Compare round up (def. 2)
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How to use round down in a sentence
You be mooching round down by the big peppermint-tree near the river-gate, say about half-past ten.'
Joe Wilson and His Mates | Henry LawsonThey are made of native cloth, five feet high, and close all round down to the mat.
Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before | George Turner"I seem to see a light moving round down that way," cried Billy from his hook, pointing toward the valley.
The Louisa Alcott Reader | Louisa M. AlcottYou're both too green and too soft to wrastle 'round down amongst folks.
The Deserter, and Other Stories | Harold FredericAfter de war set us free my pappy moved us away and I stayed round down there till I got to be a grown woman and married.
Slave Narratives, Oklahoma | Various
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