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Thesaurus: recapitulate

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.

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  1. v. t. 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.
  2. v. i. To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
  3. v. summarize briefly
  4. v. repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
  5. v. repeat an earlier theme of a composition
  6. 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. To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
  7. To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, oressay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or argumentsof; to relate in brief; to summarize.
  8. v:100 v. summarize briefly v. repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life