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capsulize

verb

  1. to condense or compress into a capsule
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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English capsule Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English capsulize From capsule + -ize.

  1. To enclose (a medication etc) in a capsule.
  2. To make into a concise form; to encapsulate.

    Nothing is capsulized in me / On either side of town / The streets were never really mine / Not mine these glamour gowns

    Radical academic Howard Zinn's quip that the U.S. is "always ready to kill people to protect them from communism" capsulized many presentations that examined U.S. international and domestic aggression (cloaked as jingoistic anti-terrorism) against progressive movments ^([sic]) and governments.