"summarise" meaning in English

See summarise in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈsʌməˌraɪz/ Audio: en-us-summarize.ogg [US] Forms: summarise [canonical], summarises [third-person, singular], summarised [past], summarised [past, participle], summarising [present, participle]
Etymology: summary + -ise Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|summary|ise}} summary + -ise Head templates: {{verb|summaris|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you summarise something, you prepare a brief list of the main points discussed.
    Sense id: simple-summarise-en-verb-3-ehDoWe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ise
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