Recapitulate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To repeat in concise form.
  • v. Biology To appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a summary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to summarize or repeat in concise form
  • v. to repeat the evolutionary stages of an organism during its embryonic development
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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-intransitive. To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. repeat an earlier theme of a composition
  • v. repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
  • v. summarize briefly
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    play    spiel    reduplicate    duplicate    repeat    double    replicate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    summarize    repeat    recap    sum up