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summarize

[ suhm-uh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

summarized, summarizing.
  1. to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
  2. to constitute a summary of.


summarize

/ ˈʌəˌɪ /

verb

  1. tr to make or be a summary of; express concisely
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܳˌ, noun
  • ˈܳˌ, adjective
  • ˌܳˈپDz, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ܳ···· adjective
  • ܳ····پDz [suhm-, uh, -rahy-, zey, -sh, uh, n], noun
  • ܳ··· ܳ·· noun
  • un·ܳ···· adjective
  • ܲ·ܳ·· adjective
  • ɱ-ܳ·· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of summarize1

First recorded in 1870–75; summar(y) + -ize
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Example Sentences

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Here, Todd has his youngest character summarize the painful central paradox of trans life — in Nazi Germany nearly a century ago, and possibly in tomorrow’s America.

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Before "Richer than Gold," there had never been a paper to summarize, or a project to summarize, all of those fungi.

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Institute of Medicine, which summarizes the situation in its title: “Shorter Lives, Poorer Health.”

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The BBC neatly summarized the stakes and spectacle as “a high-stakes game of chicken, with the world's economy hanging in the balance.”

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We now live in an era that can be safely summarized as the end of science's peacetime, and perhaps the end of the general eminence of once mighty institutions of higher learning.

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