[syn: summarize, summarise, sum, sum up]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Summarize \Sum"ma*rize\, v. t.
To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.
--Chambers.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
summarize
v 1: give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will
now summarize" [syn: sum up, summarize, summarise,
resume]
2: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in
the paper" [syn: summarize, summarise, sum, sum up]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "summarize":
abbreviate, abridge, abstract, add up, battologize, bob, boil down,
brief, capsule, capsulize, cast up, cipher up, clip, compress,
condense, contract, count up, crop, curtail, cut, cut back,
cut down, cut off short, cut short, detail, digest, dock, elide,
epitomize, figure up, fill, foot up, foreshorten, give an encore,
go over, go through, inventory, itemize, iterate, mow, nip,
nutshell, outline, pad, poll, pollard, practice, prune, reaffirm,
reap, reassert, recap, recapitulate, recite, reckon up, recount,
reduce, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, reprint,
restate, resume, retail, retell, retrench, retrograde, review,
reword, run over, say over, say over again, score up, shave, shear,
shorten, sketch, sketch out, snub, stunt, sum, sum up, summate,
synopsize, take in, tally up, tautologize, telescope, tot up,
total, total up, tote up, trim, truncate