synopsize

English

Etymology

From synopsis +‎ -ize.

Verb

synopsize (third-person singular simple present synopsizes, present participle synopsizing, simple past and past participle synopsized)

1. (transitive) To give a synopsis (summary) of.
   • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 247:

     But into that tangle, just as crucial, went the smell of the cover, the color and cream resistance of the pages, the week in which I read any given epic, the friends for whom I synopsized, the bed, the lamp, the room where I read.

Synonyms

• recapitulate
• summarize