summerize

summerize
/sum"euh ruyz'/, v.t., summerized, summerizing.
1. to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
2. to protect in hot weather for future use: to summerize a snowmobile.
Also, esp. Brit., summerise.
[SUMMER1 + -IZE]

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