What's the difference between epitomize and epitomized?

Epitomize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.
  • (v. t.) To diminish, as by cutting off something; to curtail; as, to epitomize words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The technical view of curriculum epitomized by the Tylerian objectives-based model focuses on measurable, quantifiable outcomes.
  • (2) Israel’s leader epitomizes what Senator J William Fulbright once called “the arrogance of power”.
  • (3) The posited codominant alleles represent the first single-locus component in the polygenic complexes creating susceptibility to seizures and epitomizes the small additive effects classically attributed to such genes.
  • (4) If malnutrition occurs during fetal life, as epitomized by small-for-gestational age infants, the effects on cell-mediated immunity are very significant and long lasting.
  • (5) Many on the Right still view it as the epitome of all that was irresponsible, idiotic and dangerous about the Sixties, while many on the terminally fractured Left still mourn 1968 as the last great moment of revolutionary possibility.
  • (6) The situation described by Goddard illustrates the spread of the issue to working parents in a town known until relatively recently as the epitome of the prosperous and aspirational post-Thatcher working class.
  • (7) What seems the epitome of mundane routine for the average British commuter is being seen as near miraculous in a city where, like Los Angeles, the car is king and the train is nowhere in sight when navigating the sprawling suburbs.
  • (8) To which list I almost forgot to add that epitome of Team Australia achievement, Prince Philip.
  • (9) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (10) "We have to be flexible to attract more fans," says the besuited Hashimoto, the epitome of the sombre Japanese executive, making clear the company's thinking behind the switch.
  • (11) This is the epitome of personalised therapy,” he said.
  • (12) The budget of 1981 is considered the epitome of soundness, an exercise in rigour that laid the foundations for the strong economic recovery.
  • (13) It produced more people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan – the epitome of the idle rich who people The Great Gatsby – than it did the hard-working rich, aware of their social responsibilities.
  • (14) Our financial sector, which plunged a large swath of humanity into economic turmoil, is perhaps the epitome of all the negative traits associated with modern capitalism.
  • (15) Once optimal stimulus parameters for routine application are determined, the glare pressor test with EEG and polygraphic recording will offer a clinically useful, standardizable method for evaluating the connection between central mechanisms and CV reactivity in professional drivers, a cohort of patients whose occupational activity epitomizes mentally stressful work, and who are at high cardiac risk.
  • (16) No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
  • (17) And though many Puerto Rican voters in Florida are focused on the financial crisis on the island, that doesn’t mean that they’re unconcerned with the rhetoric around immigration and “Mexicans”, as epitomized by statements made by people like Donald Trump .
  • (18) Large parts of Britain's standing army – the epitome of professional values – are being wound up and replaced by part-time reservists.
  • (19) The history of oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula is a mini history of surgery - "oesophageal atresia is the epitome of modern surgery".
  • (20) To be without legs, and to become the epitome of excellence in the very field where you are not supposed to excel: that is the stuff of legends.

Epitomized


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Epitomize

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The technical view of curriculum epitomized by the Tylerian objectives-based model focuses on measurable, quantifiable outcomes.
  • (2) Israel’s leader epitomizes what Senator J William Fulbright once called “the arrogance of power”.
  • (3) The posited codominant alleles represent the first single-locus component in the polygenic complexes creating susceptibility to seizures and epitomizes the small additive effects classically attributed to such genes.
  • (4) If malnutrition occurs during fetal life, as epitomized by small-for-gestational age infants, the effects on cell-mediated immunity are very significant and long lasting.
  • (5) Many on the Right still view it as the epitome of all that was irresponsible, idiotic and dangerous about the Sixties, while many on the terminally fractured Left still mourn 1968 as the last great moment of revolutionary possibility.
  • (6) The situation described by Goddard illustrates the spread of the issue to working parents in a town known until relatively recently as the epitome of the prosperous and aspirational post-Thatcher working class.
  • (7) What seems the epitome of mundane routine for the average British commuter is being seen as near miraculous in a city where, like Los Angeles, the car is king and the train is nowhere in sight when navigating the sprawling suburbs.
  • (8) To which list I almost forgot to add that epitome of Team Australia achievement, Prince Philip.
  • (9) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (10) "We have to be flexible to attract more fans," says the besuited Hashimoto, the epitome of the sombre Japanese executive, making clear the company's thinking behind the switch.
  • (11) This is the epitome of personalised therapy,” he said.
  • (12) The budget of 1981 is considered the epitome of soundness, an exercise in rigour that laid the foundations for the strong economic recovery.
  • (13) It produced more people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan – the epitome of the idle rich who people The Great Gatsby – than it did the hard-working rich, aware of their social responsibilities.
  • (14) Our financial sector, which plunged a large swath of humanity into economic turmoil, is perhaps the epitome of all the negative traits associated with modern capitalism.
  • (15) Once optimal stimulus parameters for routine application are determined, the glare pressor test with EEG and polygraphic recording will offer a clinically useful, standardizable method for evaluating the connection between central mechanisms and CV reactivity in professional drivers, a cohort of patients whose occupational activity epitomizes mentally stressful work, and who are at high cardiac risk.
  • (16) No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
  • (17) And though many Puerto Rican voters in Florida are focused on the financial crisis on the island, that doesn’t mean that they’re unconcerned with the rhetoric around immigration and “Mexicans”, as epitomized by statements made by people like Donald Trump .
  • (18) Large parts of Britain's standing army – the epitome of professional values – are being wound up and replaced by part-time reservists.
  • (19) The history of oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula is a mini history of surgery - "oesophageal atresia is the epitome of modern surgery".
  • (20) To be without legs, and to become the epitome of excellence in the very field where you are not supposed to excel: that is the stuff of legends.

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