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To condense complex, high-level information into a short, heavily simplified summary so that your brain-dead friend, tired coworker, or a distracted toddler can understand it. It is the act of stripping away all technical jargon, advanced logic, and intellectual dignity until only the absolute basics remain.Unlike a regular summary—which keeps the original tone—to dummarize means you are actively translating "smart person talk" into "caveman speak."
• Synonyms: Caveman-ing, brain-smoothing, crayon-translating.
• Antonyms: Over-explaining, gatekeeping, yapping.
Example 1
Professor: "The socio-economic paradigms of the late 20th century heavily influenced urban infrastructural decay."Student: "Can you please Dummarize that for me?"Professor: "Fine. People got poor, cities got broke."

Example 2
"I tried reading the 50-page terms of service agreement, but I couldn't do it. I just used an AI bot to Dummarize it down to three bullet points."

Corporate Executive: "We need to optimize our cross-functional regional synergies to mitigate macroeconomic headwinds."

Project Manager: "Sir, the client is entirely out of coffee. Please Dummarize this."

Corporate Executive: "We are failing. Fire Dave."
Dummarize by Amrikan_Su June 14, 2026
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Duggarized

1) To confront a task by doing the absolute bare minimum required.

2) To be assigned equal amounts of work and complain that your are overwhelmed and being dumped on by your coworkers.

3) To arrive at work at 8AM and have your feet firmly placed on your desk, earphones on head and movies playing on your computer by 930AM.
1) I had a ton of work to do so I just duggarized the last five assignments.

2) Why is he complaining? Why doesn't he just duggarize it and go to lunch early?

3) I thought it was going to be a bad day but I was duggarized by 9:30.
Duggarized by Dom Viol January 1, 2012

DUNKARIZED 

Is a spectacular highlight-reel dunk of one player dunking over another player that can be made into a poster shot
Blake Griffin DUNKARIZED Kendrick Perkins for the NBA Play-of-the-Year.

summarize 

To get ready for warm weather.
The teacher asked me to summarize my argument, so I took out all the parts about eskimoes.
summarize by Orthogonal Jones May 24, 2008
Word of the Day on May 7, 2019

dumberize 

The department has dumberized the course to accomodate non majors.
dumberize by shadowed June 2, 2007

summarize 

The dictionary says "To state or express in a concise word."
I say to say something by using as little brain work as possible.
Long version:
"And like a flower in the moonlight, she glided gracefully down the aisle."
Summarized version:
"Why can't you just said she walked down the aisle?"
summarize by Eileen S December 12, 2007
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