Definitions for recapitulate

Overview of verb recapitulate

The verb recapitulate has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) recapitulate, recap

(summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas")

2. recapitulate

(repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life)

3. reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate

(repeat an earlier theme of a composition)