summarize

English

Alternative forms

• summarise (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From summary +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌməˌɹaɪz/

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Verb

summarize (third-person singular simple present summarizes, present participle summarizing, simple past and past participle summarized)

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

   Jim was asked to summarize the document by Wednesday.

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

   Synonym: sum up

   After the meeting, Jim summarized the major decisions made.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with the similar-sounding summerize.

Synonyms

• précis

Translations

to prepare a summary

Arabic: لَخَّصَ (laḵḵaṣa), اِخْتَصَرَ (ar) (iḵtaṣara) Armenian: ամփոփել (hy) (ampʻopʻel) Azerbaijani: yekunlaşdırmaq Basque: laburbildu Bulgarian: резюми́рам (bg) (rezjumíram) Catalan: resumir (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 摘要 (zh) (zhāiyào), 總結 / 总结 (zh) (zǒngjié) Cornish: berrskrifa Dutch: samenvatten (nl), opsommen (nl), puren (nl), uitpuren (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: tiivistää (fi) French: résumer (fr), récapituler (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: zusammenfassen (de) Hebrew: סיכם (sikém) Hungarian: összefoglal (hu) Irish: achoimrigh Italian: riassumere (it) Japanese: 要約する (ja) (ようやくする, yōyaku suru) Kazakh: нәтижелеу (nätijeleu) Korean: 요약하다 (ko) (yoyakhada) Latin: consummo Malay: merumuskan Maori: whakarāpopoto, whakarāpopoto Persian: خلاصه کردن (fa) (xolâse kardan) Polish: streszczać (pl), reasumować (pl) impf Portuguese: resumir (pt) Russian: обобща́ть (ru) impf (obobščátʹ), обобщи́ть (ru) pf (obobščítʹ); подводи́ть ито́г (ru) impf (podvodítʹ itóg), подвести́ ито́г pf (podvestí itóg); подыто́живать (ru) impf (podytóživatʹ), подыто́жить (ru) pf (podytóžitʹ), конспекти́ровать (ru) (konspektírovatʹ) Scottish Gaelic: thoir geàrr-chunntas air Spanish: resumir (es) Swedish: sammanfatta (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: özetlemek (tr) Vietnamese: tóm lược (vi), tóm tắt (vi), tóm lại (vi)

to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review

Armenian: ամփոփել (hy) (ampʻopʻel) Azerbaijani: yekunlaşdırmaq Bulgarian: обобщавам (bg) (obobštavam) Catalan: recapitular (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 總結 / 总结 (zh) (zǒngjié) Esperanto: resumi (eo) Finnish: tiivistää (fi), esittää lyhyesti French: récapituler (fr) German: zusammenfassen (de) Greek: ανακεφαλαιώνω (el) (anakefalaióno) Irish: achoimrigh Italian: riassumere (it) Kazakh: жинақтау (jinaqtau) Maori: whakarāpopoto Polish: sumować (pl) impf, zsumować pf, zsumowywać impf Russian: обобща́ть (ru) impf (obobščátʹ), обобщи́ть (ru) pf (obobščítʹ); подводи́ть ито́г (ru) impf (podvodítʹ itóg), подвести́ ито́г pf (podvestí itóg); подыто́живать (ru) impf (podytóživatʹ), подыто́жить (ru) pf (podytóžitʹ) Scottish Gaelic: thoir geàrr-chunntas air Spanish: resumir (es), recapitular (es)

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Czech: shrnout (cs) Finnish: tehdä yhteenveto Portuguese: resumir (pt)