intransitive verb. To repeat in concise form.

intransitive verb. To appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism.

intransitive verb. To make a summary.

To repeat, as the principal things mentioned in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay; give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; mention or relate in brief.

Synonyms Recapitulate, Repeat, Recite, Rehearse, Reiterate. Recapitulate is a precise word, applying to the formal or exact naming of points that have been with some exactness named before: as, it is often well after an extended argument, to recapitulate the heads. In this it differs from repeat, recite, rehearse, which are freer in their use. To reiterate is to say a thing a second time or oftener.

To repeat in brief what has already been said.

intransitive verb. To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.

transitive verb. To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.

verb. to summarize or repeat in concise form

verb. to repeat the evolutionary stages of an organism during its embryonic development

verb. repeat an earlier theme of a composition

verb. repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life

verb. summarize briefly

"Most first generation immigrants will be able to understand more English than you think, but for them to process it and recapitulate, that is more than they are willing to do, it is just plain hard!"

double  duplicate  play  reduplicate  repeat  

abbreviate  abridge  abstract  add up  battologize  

recapitulated  recapitulates  recapitulating