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Definition of "totalize" []

  • To make or combine into a total. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "totalize" in a sentence
  • "It's very much like this, seeing that the idea was over ten years ago and during that process other things came into totalize the idea; I took notes, sometimes mental notes, to build up the ideas and when I came down to it, the writing probably only took eight months but I had to spread it over three years because I had two other ghostwriting books to finish in between times."
  • "In the same sentence you totalize Rand's promotion of her work and/or retention of her money."
  • "There are little cracks to squirm into, of course, as nothing can ever truly totalize except in that magical, horrible moment, where the territory becomes the map."