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]