epitomize

English

Alternative forms

• epitomise

Etymology

epitome +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɪt.əˌmaɪz/

Verb

1. To make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.
2. To be an epitome of.
   • 1997, Michael Moortgat, Categorial Type Logics, in Handbook of Logic and Language, ed. J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen, p. 99

     The framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar epitomizes the rule-based generalized categorial architecture.

Synonyms

• sum up

Derived terms

• epitomizer
• epitomization
• epitomistic

Translations

make an epitome

• Dutch: excerperen (nl), samenvatten (nl)
• French: résumer (fr)
• Hungarian: összefoglal (hu), összegez (hu), kivonatol (hu), tömörít (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: epitomizar
• Serbo-Croatian: ut(j)eloviti, ovaplotiti (sh), ot(j)eloviti
• Swedish: sammanfatta (sv)

be an epitome

• Dutch: belichamen (nl), in (nl) zich (nl) verenigen (nl)
• German: verkörpern (de)
• Hungarian: megtestesít (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Occitan: representar, incarnar, personificar
• Portuguese: incarnar, personificar (pt), representar (pt)
• Swedish: representera (sv), personifiera (sv)

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Portuguese

Verb

epitomize

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