Meaning & use
Summarizing
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Giving a brief statement of the main points of something, without including unnecessary detail.
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The teacher asked each student to try summarizing the chapter in three sentences.
After the meeting, she sent an email summarizing the decisions that were made.
A note on using this word
Effective summarizing requires distinguishing main ideas from supporting details, a skill often taught explicitly in reading comprehension.
Words with a similar meaning
condensingrecappingabstracting
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Words with an opposite meaning
elaboratingexpanding
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