English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. English summarize
From summary + -ize.
Pronunciation
Verb
summarize (third-person singular simple present summarizes, present participle summarizing, simple past and past participle summarized)
- (ambitransitive) To prepare a summary of (something).
Jim was asked to summarize the document by Wednesday.
- (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
Derived terms
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
- Māori: whakarāpopoto, whakarāpopoto
- Persian: خلاصه کردن (fa) (xolâse kardan)
- Polish: podsumowywać (pl) impf, podsumować (pl) pf, streszczać (pl) impf, streścić (pl) pf, reasumować (pl) impf, zreasumować pf
- 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)
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to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
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