Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Enclosed in or formed into a capsule.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box. Also capsuled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Botany) Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective encased, closed in by a capsule

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb enclose in a capsule
  • adjective used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule

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Examples

  • It's been a while since I bothered to capsulate him, but his column for the Sunday Times is worth it because it proves -- as if there was any doubt -- that he is such a sanctimonious toady to the Bush administration.

    February 2006 2006

  • To capsulate photojournalism: photojournalists tell stories with visual verbs.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • Maureen Dowd made a couple of points that have cropped up elsewhere that seem to capsulate the core response from the left regarding the Schiavo case:

    Dowd on Schiavo Jeffrey Hill 2005

  • And what I have learned -- I could spend several hours talking to you about it but let me try to capsulate just very quickly.

    Remarks By The President And Race Advisory Board ITY National Archives 1998

  • All Sunday's loss did was capsulate everything that's been wrong with the 49ers this season.

    SFGate: Top News Stories dwhite@sfchronicle.com (David White 2010

  • It's a stream-of-consciousness outpouring that attempts to capsulate portions or fragments of the 'Haleigh Cummings' Homicide Case. '

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2010

  • It's a stream-of-consciousness outpouring that attempts to capsulate portions or fragments of the 'Haleigh Cummings' Homicide Case. '

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2010

  • We steam the placenta and dehydrate it and capsulate it.

    No Stories found Shannon Powell 2010

  • A simple capsulate would be to say "If you worked for it, earned it, then you get to keep it."

    The Austin Daily Herald 2009

  • In light of the large impact of our financials from the Microsoft settlement I would like to step back for a moment and capsulate these results to give you a better sense of our ongoing cash flows.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

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