synopsize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make a synopsis of
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variants of epitomize
Etymology
Origin of synopsize
First recorded in 1880–85; synops(is) + -ize
Example Sentences
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Explanatory panels located inside the showcases synopsize decades of investigations on the part of the carabinieri that often led to criminal proceedings and subsequently the return of the ill-gotten goods.
From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2022
“It’s like, if you synopsize the story, you haven’t really described the play. It’s about something other than that, and the ‘something other than that’ is the thing.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2019
Okay, that isn’t so simple, but it’s easy enough to synopsize, unlike the story that cuts a path through the greatest hits of existential philosophy.
From The Verge • Jul. 19, 2017
The plot is hard to synopsize, but here’re the bullet points: In some unspecified time in the future, likely more than 50 years hence, the world is in ecological disaster.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2014
Pity! it is more than a pity, it is a crime; for to synopsize McClintock is to reduce a sky-flushing conflagration to dull embers, it is to reduce barbaric splendor to ragged poverty.
From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Twain, Mark
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