summarizes
UK spellingsummarises
- 1Third-person singular simple present of summarize.
The abstract summarizes the study's key findings in under two hundred words.
Each chapter summarizes the main events before moving on to the next.
Note
Both uses of the verb travel in this form: preparing a summary of something, and recapitulating the salient points, as a speaker does when reviewing what came before. It can take an object or stand alone. The report summarizes its findings; the chair summarizes and then closes the meeting. Without an object, what is being summed up is understood from context, usually the discussion just finished.
After two hours of debate, the moderator summarizes and calls for a vote.
She listens to every proposal, then summarizes before anyone can object.
summarizes is a form of summarize
summarize, verb: To produce a short account of something that captures its main points. Full entry
- Forms
- summarizesummarizes he/she/itsummarizing -ing formsummarized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- summarize → summarizes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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