verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To prepare a summary of (something). ambitransitive

   "Jim was asked to summarize the document by Wednesday."

2. 2
   give a summary (of) wordnet
3. 3
   To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review. ambitransitive

   "After the meeting, Jim summarized the major decisions made."

4. 4
   be a summary of wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

sum upsum upabbreviateabridgeabstractadd up

Example

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"Summarize the contents in 60 English words."

Etymology

From summary + -ize. From summ(ary) + -arize.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.