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What is the verb for summary?

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summarize
  1. To prepare a summary of something.
  2. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Then I summarize the reasons for which it is an absolutely abominable film?”
      “After cross-examining me regarding my identity and my employer, he asked me to summarize the story.”
      “Here we summarize what is known of endocytotic cycling in animals and compare those mechanisms with what is known in plants.”
summarise
  1. To prepare a summary of something
  2. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review
  3. Examples:
    1. “His task in the next two hours, as mandated by the US State Department, is to summarise baseball for the foreign press.”
      “Many sections summarise arguments and discussions which Greene first aired on these pages.”
      “In the following section of the case stated the magistrates summarise the testimony of the witnesses who gave evidence.”
summate
  1. To sum, add up; perform a summation.
  2. To sum up, summarise.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “They accumulate in time, finally they summate, and exercise their influence even at the beginning of the service.”
      “Again, the electrical effects induced in the bipolar cells may summate at the dendritic processes of a ganglion cell so that the receptive field of a ganglion cell may embrace many thousands of rods.”
      “The toxicity of those individual chlorinated organic compounds generated by bleached pulp mills which have been studied in the laboratory does not summate to more than a few percent of the observed toxicity of the effluents.”
sum up
  1. To produce a total by adding.
  2. (idiomatic) to summarize
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He knows how to sum up his point in a few words with no gobbledygook or claptrap!”
      “So to sum up we've got a very good OS that's a pleasure to use, and that you're going to think just about justifies the vast hardware footprint.”
      “Could you sum up in your own words, for the benefit of our readers who are maybe not as esoterically educated, what the central thesis is?”
sum
  1. (transitive) To add together.
  2. (transitive) To give a summary of.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “A formula can be included at the end of a row to sum the numbers in that row.”
summing
summarizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summarize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Figure 4 summarizes the five fundamental elements of any anti-fraud strategy.”
      “Besides, it also summarizes the status quo of international service outsourcing transferrer and destination market.”
      “It compares and contrasts unclassified English-language sites and summarizes the available data.”
summarises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summarise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This review summarises the evidence from randomised controlled trials of the effectiveness of exercise as a treatment for depression.”
      “The written decision summarises evidence given to the commission during the appeal hearings.”
      “It outlines legal protections for privacy and summarises important issues relating to surveillance.”
summates
sums up
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sum up
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It sums up the lifework of one of the most serious, original, and balanced literary thinkers in North America.”
      “Without being stilted or pedantic about it, Sontag sums up the history of stagecraft back to the Elizabethans.”
      “She sums up the fierce sense of loyalty many caravanners have to the East Coast, although she has travelled widely abroad.”
summarized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of summarize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The relationships between changing magnetic and electric fields are summarized in the well-known Maxwell's equations.”
      “The results of the experiment to develop a method for consumably arc melting hafnium crystal bars are summarized as follows.”
      “It is undeniable that they cannot be easily summarized or reduced to one-liners.”
summarised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of summarise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The majority decision on the question of the scope of the brokers duty is, I think, well summarised in the headnote to the report.”
      “They do this by trading on a phenomenon once neatly summarised by the great economist JK Galbraith.”
      “The Old Testament contains codified moral laws, such as those we find summarised in the Ten Commandments.”
sums
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sum
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summeth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sum
summated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of summate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “First, information about movement parameters specified by efference copy is not simply summated with reafferent stimulation.”
      “Scores for each activity were then summated to generate a score for activity performances.”
      “The summated toxicity of all these chlorinated organic compounds represents a high level of risk.”
summed up
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sum up
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In a sentence, he summed up the pros and cons of driving a soft-top car in Ireland.”
      “The new king, he summed up, would have to win the love, confidence and support of the Nepalese people.”
      “Under the dripping red and white striped canvas of her tent, the secretary of Appleby Show summed up the day.”
summest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of sum
summed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sum
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  3. Examples:
    1. “With the verbal equivalent of one of those ferocious aces he whacks past opponents, Andy Roddick has summed up life in just 18 words.”
      “We each had a read of the relevant paragraphs and had to agree that it actually summed him up quite well.”
      “In a sentence, he summed up the pros and cons of driving a soft-top car in Ireland.”
summarising
  1. present participle of summarise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The sheer impossibility of summarising Oracle Night is in fact a mark of the book's strength.”
      “Though pleasantly matey, he has the fatigued, abstracted air of someone who has been summarising his CV in dressing rooms for three decades.”
      “It's a piece summarising psychological experiments that demonstrate externalisation as a coping strategy.”
summarizing
  1. present participle of summarize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Instead of me summarizing this, however, let me just give you a blow-by-blow description of each song so you can judge for yourself.”
      “The album's final song, then, is also its centerpiece, summarizing its narrative and musical arcs in one bravura performance.”
      “Overall, the book does a fine job of summarizing the available information on trogons and quetzals but the work is somewhat uneven.”
summating
summing up
  1. present participle of sum up
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The judge may have considered that there was no need to repeat all of the details in the summing up.”
      “At the end of the day-long meeting, he made light work of summing up the main points.”
      “Often, after summing up the subject he is reviewing, he steps back and argues eloquently for both the difficult and the impossible.”
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