sum up en · VERB
Meanings
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(ambitransitive) To produce a total by adding.
We summed up the donations and found that we had just enough to pay the bills.
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(ambitransitive) To summarize.
So, to sum up your argument, what you are saying is that it is impossible.
Best came close to getting on the end of Barton's cross but he was inches away from connecting. It was an incident that summed up Newcastle's afternoon.
2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC:To sum up, the Furka-Oberalp Railway is a good example of the adaptation of the rack-and-pinion system to a main line over mountainous terrain.
1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 770:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| summed up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| summed up | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| summing up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sums up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (7)
pl zsumować (to produce a total by adding) · pl sumować (to produce a total by adding) · de zusammenzählen (to sum up; to summarize) · pl zsumowywać (to produce a total by adding) · es sumar (to produce a total by adding) · pl podsumować (to sum up; to summarize) · pl podsumowywać (to sum up; to summarize)