| VERB | contact | round up | seek out and bring together |
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| Meaning | seek out and bring together. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | They want to round up the prisoners | |
| Example | "round up some loyal followers" | |
| Broader | gather, garner, collect, pull together | Assemble or get together |
| Spanish | reunir | |
| Nouns | roundup | the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police |
| roundup | the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold | |
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