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synopsise

synopsise is the alternative form of synopsize.

Meaning of synopsize

Verb

synopsize (third-person singular simple present synopsizes, present participle synopsizing, simple past and past participle synopsized)

  1. (transitive) To give a synopsis (summary) of.
    • But into that tangle, just as crucial, went the smell of the cover, the color and cream resistance of the pages, the week in which I read any given epic, the friends for whom I synopsized, the bed, the lamp, the room where I read.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 247

Forms of synopsise

third-person singular presentsynopsises
present participlesynopsising
past participlesynopsised
pastsynopsised

Questions about synopsise

What is synopsise the alternative form of?
Synopsise is the alternative form of synopsize.

Words near synopsise in the dictionary

  1. synophthalmia
  2. synophthalmic
  3. synopses
  4. synopsia
  5. synopsis
  6. synopsise
  7. synopsised
  8. synopsises
  9. synopsising
  10. synopsize
  11. synopsized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: synopsise (page history and authors); synopsize (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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