Usually means: Condense content to essential points.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. summarize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. summarize: Merriam-Webster
  3. summarize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. summarize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. summarize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. summarize: Vocabulary.com
  7. Summarize, summarize: Wordnik
  8. summarize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. summarize: Wiktionary
  10. summarize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. summarize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. summarize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. summarize: Dictionary.com
  14. summarize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Summarize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. summarize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. summarize: Rhymezone
  18. summarize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. summarize: FreeDictionary.org
  20. summarize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. summarize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. summarize: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. summarize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. summarize: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. summarize: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To prepare a summary of (something).
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.

Similar:
sum up, resume, summarise, outline, wrap up, recapitulate, synopsize, profile, quote, overview, more...

Opposite:
elaborate, expand, detail, extend, expound

Types:
recap, sum up, give account of, conclude, tell story of, more...

Phrases:
to summarize, summarize the plot of, summarize briefly, to summarize in a few words, more...

Adjectives:
best, next, particular, further, objective, first, single, public, last, former, main



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Similar:
sum up, resume, summarise, outline, wrap up, recapitulate, synopsize, profile, quote, overview, more...

Opposite:
elaborate, expand, detail, extend, expound

Types:
recap, sum up, give account of, conclude, tell story of, more...

Phrases:
to summarize, summarize the plot of, summarize briefly, to summarize in a few words, more...

Adjectives:
best, next, particular, further, objective, first, single, public, last, former, main



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