Round and Wad

Round

Round verb - To form into a round compact mass.

Usage example: carefully rounded the dough and placed it on a cookie tray

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Wad and round are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wad" instead the word "Round" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: rounded, rounder, roundly, roundel, roundish

Wad verb - To form into a round compact mass.

Usage example: disgusted, she wadded up the paper and threw it in the wastebasket

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Round and wad are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Round" instead a verb "Wad".

full	full round	full wad
nice	nice round	nice wad
single	single round	single wad
small	small round	small wad
Other adjectives: entire, massive, large.

After getting absolutely crushed in the first round, he asks to try again, offering a tidy, folded wad of cash.

Source: Little Miss Con Artist
In the case of Cort's gun, you can plainly see the empty space where a crudely removed loading lever once was (this lever was used to press the round bullet into the chamber and compress the powder and wad inside).

Source: Film / The Quick and the Dead
Accidentally happens in the outtakes of Firefly; In one scene (part of "House of Gold"), an actor playing a bandit shot a blank round at Alan Tudyk (Wash), and the paper wad shot out and hit Alan in the buttock.

Source: Shot in the Ass

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