Dictionary Entry
recapitulate
recapitulate is a 12-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
- 3verb
summarize briefly
"Let's recapitulate the main ideas"
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- 4verb
repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- 5verb
repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
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