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, rehears, 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.In biology, to repeat ancestral evolutionary stages: said of young animals in their early development.