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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" [syn: sum up, summarize, summarise, resume]
2: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" [syn: summarize, summarise, sum, sum up]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-rized; -rizing) Date: 1871 transitive verb to tell in or reduce to a summary intransitive verb to make a summary • summarizable adjective • summarizer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) make or be a summary of; sum up. Derivatives: summarist n. summarizable adj. summarization n. summarizer n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Summarize Sum"ma*rize, v. t. To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly. --Chambers.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(summarizes, summarizing, summarized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'summarise' If you summarize something, you give a summary of it. Table 3.1 summarizes the information given above... Basically, the article can be summarized in three sentences... To summarise, this is a clever approach to a common problem. VERB: V n, be V-ed prep/adv, V

Moby 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