Synonyms for sum up
sum up

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1. sum up

   To add is to increase by adjoining or uniting: in distinction from multiply, which is to increase by repeating. To augment a thing is to increase it by any means, but this word is seldom used directly of material objects; we do not augment a house, a farm, a nation, etc. We may enlarge a house, a farm, or an empire, extend influence or dominion, augment riches, power or influence, attach or annex a building to one that it adjoins or papers to the document they refer to, annex a clause or a codicil, affix a seal or a signature, annex a territory, attach a condition to a promise. A speaker may amplify a discourse by a fuller treatment throughout than was originally planned, or he may append or subjoin certain remarks without change of what has gone before. We cast up or sum up an account, though add up and make up are now more usual expressions.

   Synonyms:
   add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, cast up, enlarge, extend, increase, join on, make up, subjoin

   Antonyms:
   abstract, deduct, diminish, dissever, lessen, reduce, remove, subtract, withdraw

   Preposition:
   Other items are to be added to the account.

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1. summary, sum-upverb

   a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form

   "he gave a summary of the conclusions"

   Synonyms:
   summary, sum-up

2. sum up, summarize, summarise, resumeverb

   give a summary (of)

   "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"

   Synonyms:
   add up, summate, sum, summarise, total, add together, summarize, add, re-start, restart, take up, tally, resume, tote up, tot up, tot

3. summarize, summarise, sum, sum upverb

   be a summary of

   "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

   Synonyms:
   summarise, resume, sum, add, summarize, total, tally, tot up, add up, summate, tote up, tot, add together

4. total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add upverb

   determine the sum of

   "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

   Synonyms:
   supply, tot, resume, tote up, bring, impart, hit, rack up, add, match, fit, sum, add up, make sense, summarize, agree, tot up, chalk up, summarise, bestow, number, score, gibe, append, tally, correspond, come, add together, jibe, contribute, total, summate, lend, amount, check

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1. sum up

   Synonyms:
   add, compute, cast up, add together

2. sum up

   Synonyms:
   condense, epitomize, comprise in a few words, put in a nutshell

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1. sum up

   Synonyms:
   summarize, recapitulate

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How to use sum up in a sentence?

1. Habib Balian:

   Those nine words sum up the entire case.

2. ― Robert Frost:

   In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

3. William Smith:

   It's hard to sum up, it's something that's made my life worse, made my life terrible. I wish I had never started it.

4. Robert Frost:

   In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

5. President Bill Clinton:

   Even after two Supreme Court verdicts and a presidential election, they are still fighting to take us backwards, i think we can sum up the message from the Court and the American people: 'Move on.'.