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Sum Summed Sʌm We’re Stuck Verb Bre Place
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BrE / sʌm / NAmE / sʌm / |
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- ‘so we’re stuck in this place with no food?’ ‘that just about sums it up.’
- ‘so we’re stuck in this place, with no food, no heat, no light and no prospect of anyone coming to rescue us?’ ‘that just about sums it up.’
- her whole philosophy can be summed up as ‘so what?’.
- she summed it up as ‘the most brilliant lecture i’ve ever attended’.
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sum(verb)BrE / sʌm / NAmE / sʌm / Extra Examples- ‘So we’re stuck in this place with no food?’ ‘That just about sums it up.’
- ‘So we’re stuck in this place, with no food, no heat, no light and no prospect of anyone coming to rescue us?’ ‘That just about sums it up.’
- Her whole philosophy can be summed up as ‘so what?’.
- She summed it up as ‘the most brilliant lecture I’ve ever attended’.
- The appeal of this charming little town is hard to sum up.
- The report attempts to sum up recent economic trends.
Verb Forms- present simple I / you / we / they sum
- he / she / it sums
- past simple summed
- past participle summed
- -ing form summing
Word Origin- Middle English: via Old French from Latin summa ‘main part, sum total’, feminine of summus ‘highest’.
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