What is the meaning of summarize?

Give a summary (of. )
- usage: "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"
- synonyms: sum up, summarise, resume
Be a summary of.
- usage: "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
- synonyms: summarise, sum, sum up

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MLA	WordNet. "summarize" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/summarize/definitions/1314019>

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