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recapitulate


verb (used with object), re·ca·pit·u·lated, re·ca·pit·u·lat·ing.

  1. to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
  2. Biology. (of an organism) to repeat (ancestral evolutionary stages) in its development.
  3. Music. to restate (the exposition) in a sonata-form movement.

verb (used without object), re·ca·pit·u·lated, re·ca·pit·u·lat·ing.

  1. to sum up statements or matters.

verb

  1. to restate the main points of (an argument, speech, etc); summarize
  2. (tr) (of an animal) to repeat (stages of its evolutionary development) during the embryonic stages of its life
  3. to repeat at some point during a piece of music (material used earlier in the same work)
v.

1560s, back-formation from recapitulation and also from Late Latin recapitulatus, past participle of recapitulare. Related: Recapitulated; recapitulating.

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