recapitulate
(verb)
verb
1. summarize briefly
- Let's recapitulate the main ideas
Similar word(s): recap
Definition categories: communication, resume, summarise, summarize
2. repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
Definition categories: creation, double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate
3. repeat an earlier theme of a composition
Similar word(s): repeat, reprise, reprize
Definition categories: creation, play, spiel
Sentences with recapitulate as a verb:
- The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.