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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

synopsize en · VERB

Etymology

From synopsis + -ize.

Meanings

  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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
synopsized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
synopsized Tense=Past lexicographic
synopsizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
synopsizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

summarize · recapitulate