Summarize
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English
Verb
Summarize (third-person singular simple present Summarizes, present participle summarizing, simple past and past participle summarized)
- To prepare a summary of something
- To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Adverbs for Summarize
roughly; casually: generally; completely; concisely; statistically; luminously; logically; vividly; convincingly; intelligibly.
Thesaurus
abbreviate, abridge, abstract, add up, battologize, bob, boil down, brief, capsule, capsulize, cast up, cipher up, clip, compress, condense, contract, count up, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, detail, digest, dock, elide, epitomize, figure up, fill, foot up, foreshorten, give an encore, go over, go through, inventory, itemize, iterate, mow, nip, nutshell, outline, pad, poll, pollard, practice, prune, reaffirm, reap, reassert, recap, recapitulate, recite, reckon up, recount, reduce, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, reprint, restate, resume, retail, retell, retrench, retrograde, review, reword, run over, say over, say over again, score up, shave, shear, shorten, sketch, sketch out, snub, stunt, sum, sum up, summate, synopsize, take in, tally up, tautologize, telescope, tot up, total, total up, tote up, trim, truncate
Alternative forms
- summarise (UK)