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Abridge long work – large book – retaining gist at heart?
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epitomise
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (alternative spelling of epitomize English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of epitomize . For spelling, see -ize . Related: Epitomised ; epitomises ; epitomising .
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; "The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition" [syn: typify , epitomize ]
Usage examples of epitomise.
There was something in her gesture that seemed to epitomise our life together.
Vain and demanding, prosecution-minded, he epitomised the scientist as tyrant of the laboratory.
Its generalised aim became the overthrow of the Cuno government which epitomised all that was rotten.
And there, within one day, is epitomised the relation of Exalted to serf, oppressor to victim, predator to prey.
Those such as Mrs Wilkinson and his dear departed wife, Dorothy, would surely find their spiritual reward, for they epitomised the goodness that still existed.
William Campbell Gault epitomised the professional practitioner of the detective and suspense genre through the middle years of the twentieth century.
VEDA, he says, epitomising the beliefs of the first Aryan conquerors of India: "Before, however, the unborn part" (that is, the etheric body) "
And all the forces of Nature were epitomised for him now in the distant blue cone which he knew so well, but had yet to feel beneath his feet.