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epitomize

/əˈpɪt.əˌmaɪz/

epitomize verb: to make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.

Verb

epitomize (third-person singular simple present epitomizes, present participle epitomizing, simple past and past participle epitomized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.
    • This simple formula epitomizes the kind of 'tolerance' that Marcuse advocates.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US) To be an epitome of.
    • The framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar epitomizes the rule-based generalized categorial architecture.1997, Michael Moortgat, “Categorial Type Logics”, in J. van Benthem, A. ter Meulen, editors, Handbook of Logic and Language, page 99

epitomize meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Arabic

epitomize in Tamil

சுருக்கு, தொகு

epitomize in Malayalam

encapsulate, embody, typify
ദൃഷ്ടാന്തീകരിക്കുക, മൂർത്തമാക്കുക, ആശയത്തിനു മർത്തരൂപം കൊടുക്കുക, സംക്ഷേപിക്കുക, ആദർശീകരിക്കുക, ഉദാഹരണം കൊണ്ടു തെളിയിക്കുക
summarize, abridge, sum up
സംഗ്രഹിക്കുക, സംക്ഷേപിക്കുക, ചുരുക്കിപ്പറയുക, സംക്ഷിപ്തമാക്കുക, ചുരുക്കം വാക്കുകളിലൊതുക്കുക, സംഗൃഹീതമാക്കുക

epitomize in Arabic

make an epitome
جَسَّدَ jassada

Examples of epitomize in a sentence

  • Cribs and formula, strollers and baby food epitomize silky parenting.
  • In the view of the formalists, Italian futurism epitomized all that poetics should work against.
  • This assertion epitomizes the Copenhagen Interpretation and clearly contradicts the epistemology of prequantal science.

All 16 example sentences with epitomize

Synonyms of epitomize

Forms of epitomize

third-person singular presentepitomizes
present participleepitomizing
past participleepitomized
pastepitomized
alternative formepitomise

Past tense of epitomize: epitomized

Origin of epitomize

From epitome + -ize.

Words formed from epitomize

Questions about epitomize

What does epitomize mean?
Epitomize means to make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.
What is epitomize in Tamil?
Epitomize in Tamil is சுருக்கு, தொகு. See Epitomize meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is epitomize?
Epitomize is a verb.
How do you pronounce epitomize?
Epitomize is pronounced /əˈpɪt.əˌmaɪz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of epitomize?
The past tense of epitomize is epitomized.

Words near epitomize in the dictionary

  1. epitomist
  2. epitomistic
  3. epitomists
  4. epitomization
  5. epitomizations
  6. epitomize
  7. epitomized
  8. epitomizer
  9. epitomizers
  10. epitomizes
  11. epitomizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epitomize (page history and authors); epitomize (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); epitomize (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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