Meanings
present singular third person summarizes · participle present summarizing · participle past summarized · past summarized · alternative summarise · alternative sumize · alternative summize · alternative sumise · alternative summise
- ambitransitiveTo give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.
After the meeting, Jim summarized the major decisions made.
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An old friend summarized the mindset of much of the developed world wryly and succinctly: "We don't need the world, we only need money." In other words, we don't actually need real-world sources of life's essentials that are within our control or a functional biosphere because since we can buy everything we could possibly want or need with money. So, money is all we need.
2026 June 15, Charles Hugh Smith, We Don't Need the World, We Only Need MoneySynonyms: sum up
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo prepare a summary of (something).
verbTo give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic لَخَّصَ, اِخْتَصَرَ
- لَخَّصَ (laḵḵaṣa)to prepare a summary
- اِخْتَصَرَ (iḵtaṣara)to prepare a summary
Basque laburbildu
- laburbilduto prepare a summary
Bulgarian резюми́рам, обобщавам
- резюми́рам (rezjumíram)to prepare a summary
- обобщавам (obobštavam)to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Catalan resumir, recapitular
- resumirto prepare a summary
- recapitularto give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Chinese Mandarin 摘要, 總結 /总结
- 摘要 (zhāiyào)to prepare a summary
- 總結 /总结 (zǒngjié)to prepare a summary
- 總結 /总结 (zǒngjié)to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Dutch samenvatten, opsommen
- samenvattento prepare a summary
- opsommento prepare a summary
- purento prepare a summary
- uitpurento prepare a summary
Esperanto resumi
- resumito give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Finnish tiivistää, tiivistää
- tiivistääto prepare a summary
- tiivistääto give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
- esittää lyhyestito give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
French résumer, récapituler
- résumerto prepare a summary
- récapitulerto prepare a summary
- récapitulerto give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
German zusammenfassen, zusammenfassen
- zusammenfassento prepare a summary
- zusammenfassento give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Greek ανακεφαλαιώνω
- ανακεφαλαιώνω (anakefalaióno)to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Hebrew סיכם
- סיכם (sikém)to prepare a summary
Hungarian összefoglal
- összefoglalto prepare a summary
Irish achoimrigh, achoimrigh
- achoimrighto prepare a summary
- achoimrighto give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Italian riassumere, riassumere
- riassumereto prepare a summary
- riassumereto give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Japanese 要約する
- 要約する (yōyaku suru)to prepare a summary
Korean 요약하다
- 요약하다 (yoyakhada)to prepare a summary
Latin consummo
- consummoto prepare a summary
Malay merumuskan
- merumuskanto prepare a summary
Māori whakarāpopoto, whakarāpopoto
- whakarāpopototo prepare a summary
- whakarāpopototo give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Persian خلاصه کردن
- خلاصه کردن (xolâse kardan)to prepare a summary
Polish podsumowywać, podsumować
- podsumowywaćto prepare a summary
- podsumowaćto prepare a summary
- streszczaćto prepare a summary
- streścićto prepare a summary
- reasumowaćto prepare a summary
- zreasumowaćto prepare a summary
- sumowaćto give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
- zsumowywaćto give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
- zsumowaćto give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Portuguese resumir
- resumirto prepare a summary
Russian обобща́ть, обобщи́ть
- обобща́ть (obobščátʹ)to prepare a summary
- обобщи́ть (obobščítʹ)to prepare a summary
- подводи́ть ито́г (podvodítʹ itóg)to prepare a summary
- подвести́ ито́г (podvestí itóg)to prepare a summary
- подыто́живать (podytóživatʹ)to prepare a summary
- подыто́жить (podytóžitʹ)to prepare a summary
- конспекти́ровать (konspektírovatʹ)to prepare a summary
- обобща́ть (obobščátʹ)to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
- обобщи́ть (obobščítʹ)to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
- подводи́ть ито́г (podvodítʹ itóg)to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
- подвести́ ито́г (podvestí itóg)to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
- подыто́живать (podytóživatʹ)to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Scottish Gaelic thoir geàrr-chunntas air, thoir geàrr-chunntas air
- thoir geàrr-chunntas airto prepare a summary
- thoir geàrr-chunntas airto give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Spanish resumir, resumir
- resumirto prepare a summary
- resumirto give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review
Swedish sammanfatta
- sammanfattato prepare a summary
Turkish özetlemek
- özetlemekto prepare a summary
Vietnamese tóm lược, tóm tắt
- tóm lượcto prepare a summary
- tóm tắtto prepare a summary
- tóm lạito prepare a summary
Cite this entry
summarize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summarize
“summarize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summarize. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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