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synopsizing

synopsizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about synopsizing

What is synopsizing the present participle and gerund of?
Synopsizing is the present participle and gerund of synopsize.

Words near synopsizing in the dictionary

  1. synopsises
  2. synopsising
  3. synopsize
  4. synopsized
  5. synopsizes
  6. synopsizing
  7. synoptic
  8. synoptic climatology
  9. synoptical
  10. synoptically
  11. synopticity

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