Verb: recapitulate ,ree-ku'pi-chu,leyt
- Summarize briefly
"Let's recapitulate the main ideas";
- recap
- Repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
"Human embryos recapitulate certain fish-like features early in development"
- (music) repeat an earlier theme of a composition
"The orchestra recapitulated the main theme in the final movement";
- reprise, repeat
Derived forms: recapitulated, recapitulates, recapitulating
Type of: double, duplicate, play, reduplicate, repeat, replicate, run over, spiel, sum up, summarise [Brit], summarize
Encyclopedia: Recapitulate