epitomize
to contain or represent in small compass; serve as a typical example of; typify: This meadow epitomizes the beauty of the whole area.
to make an epitome of: to epitomize an argument.
Origin of epitomize
1- Also especially British, e·pit·o·mise .
Other words from epitomize
- e·pit·o·mi·za·tion, noun
- e·pit·o·miz·er, noun
- un·e·pit·o·mized, adjective
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How to use epitomize in a sentence
You cannot epitomise the knowledge that it would take years to acquire into a few volumes that may be read in as many weeks.
Friends in Council | Arthur HelpsThe brief summary will serve to broadly epitomise the subject, and will prove the ceaseless variety of interest which it involves.
Old and New London | Walter ThornburyI shall, however, in a few pages briefly epitomise what passed.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) | James Anthony FroudeIt always seemed to her to characterise and to epitomise him, that grotesque expression.
This Freedom | A. S. M. HutchinsonThe actual achievements of Manet epitomise the secondary in art.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning | Willard Huntington Wright
British Dictionary definitions for epitomize
epitomise
/ (ɪˈpɪtəˌmaɪz) /
to be a personification of; typify
to make an epitome of
Derived forms of epitomize
- epitomist, noun
- epitomization or epitomisation, noun
- epitomizer or epitomiser, noun
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