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sum up

su·mup

fairly common

verb

1.

give a summary (of)

  • “he summed up his results”
  • “I will now summarize”
2.

be a summary of

  • “The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper”
3.

determine the sum of

  • “Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town”

Origin

From sum + up, from the phrasal verb.

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