EGAVE

recapitulate

About 0.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To summarize or repeat in concise form.
    The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.
  2. verb To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
  3. verb To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.

Similar words

repeat reprise recap rehearse summarize summarise reiterate abstract summary remind

Often followed by

the what briefly some them in and all here

Word family

recapitulated recapitulates recapitulating

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