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Verb: summarise  'sú-mu,rIz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: summarize)
  1. Be a summary of
    "The abstract summarises the main ideas in the paper";
    - summarize, sum, sum up
     
  2. Give a summary (of)
    "he summarised his results";
    - sum up, summarize, resume, run over

Sounds like: suites, smarise, sum

Derived forms: summarised, summarises, summarising

Type of: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell, say, state, tell