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summarise

summarise is the alternative form of summarize.

Meaning of summarize

Verb

summarize (third-person singular simple present summarizes, present participle summarizing, simple past and past participle summarized)

  1. (ambitransitive) To prepare a summary of (something).
    • Jim was asked to summarize the document by Wednesday.
    Synonyms:
    brief
  2. (ambitransitive) To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.
    • After the meeting, Jim summarized the major decisions made.
    Synonyms:
    sum up

Forms of summarise

third-person singular presentsummarises
present participlesummarising
past participlesummarised
pastsummarised

Origin of summarise

From summary + -ise.

Words formed from summarise

Questions about summarise

What is summarise the alternative form of?
Summarise is the alternative form of summarize.

Words near summarise in the dictionary

  1. summarily
  2. summariness
  3. summarisable
  4. summarisation
  5. summarisations
  6. summarise
  7. summarised
  8. summariser
  9. summarisers
  10. summarises
  11. summarising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: summarise (page history and authors); summarize (page history and authors). 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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