epitomize
/ɪˈpɪtəmʌɪz
/ /ɛˈpɪtəmʌɪz/(also epitomise)
verb [with object]
1Be a perfect example of: the company epitomized the problems faced by British industry...
- These two last examples epitomize the murkiness besetting a serious examination of the occupation of early modem peoples and the identities they derived from their work.
- They lost 18 wickets in a day that epitomised their fragility perfectly.
- There is something about them that seems to epitomise local journalism.
Synonyms
embody, give form/shape to, incorporate;
typify, exemplify, represent, be representative of, encapsulate, manifest, symbolize, stand for, illustrate, sum up;
personify
formal reify
rare incarnate
2 archaic Give a summary of (a written work): for the benefit of our readers, we will epitomize the pamphlet...
- A number summarize whole books with replies to subsequent criticism or epitomize decades of work of an author in two-dozen pages.
Derivatives
epitomization
- Why the play doesn't quite take off, with all these echoes and epitomisations, and with sharp characterisation and acting, is mysterious.
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- East Timorese
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- eastwardly
- eastward position
- eastwards
- east-west
- east wind
- east-winded
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- Eastwood, Clint
- East–West
- easy
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- easy does it
- easy-drinking
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- easy game
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- easy listening
- easy mark