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sum-up
[suhm-uhp]
noun
the act or result of summing up; summary.
sum up
verb
to summarize (feelings, the main points of an argument, etc)
the judge began to sum up
(tr) to form a quick opinion of
I summed him up in five minutes
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sum-up1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
The coaches were asked to avoid asking her open-ended questions in the morning and to provide a sum-up at the end of team briefings to ensure they had been understood.
The snow clearing is a really useful sum-up of the entire problem.
In her absence, Mrs. Bindle proceeded to sum-up her character from the evidence that her home contained.
There was a final sum-up before they voted and I think it was at the beginning of that.
He grows as serious as ’tis possible for a madman, and pretends to sum-up the whole state of the controversy with the Nonconformists.
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