MEANING
to combine separate elements or findings into an integrated whole
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Words that belong together
- synthesize findings
- synthesize evidence
- synthesize information
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The conclusion synthesizes evidence from the earlier chapters.
A review should synthesize findings rather than reproduce every abstract.
The team synthesized a compound with a simpler structure.
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Word forms
- Base
- synthesize / synthesizes
- Past tense
- synthesized
- Past participle
- synthesized
- Present participle
- synthesizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- synthesize / synthesizes
- Present continuous
- am/is/are synthesizing
- Present perfect
- have/has synthesized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been synthesizing
- Past
- synthesized
- Past continuous
- was/were synthesizing
- Past perfect
- had synthesized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been synthesizing
- Future
- will synthesize / synthesizes
- Future continuous
- will be synthesizing
- Future perfect
- will have synthesized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been synthesizing
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Usage notes
Primary curation section: Academic. Synthesis relates sources to one another instead of merely listing them. Also means producing a substance from components. synthesize; synthesizes; synthesized; synthesized; synthesizing. British variant: synthesise. Related noun: synthesis; plural syntheses.
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