Definitions for recapitulate

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recapitulate re·ca·pit·u·late

Spelling: [ree-kuh-pich-uh-leyt]

IPA: /ˌri kəˈpɪtʃ əˌleɪt/

Recapitulate is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1075 anagrams from letters in recapitulate (aaceeilprttu).

Definitions for recapitulate

verb (used with object)

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)

1. to sum up statements or matters.

Origin of recapitulate

1560-70; Late Latin recapitulātus (past participle of recapitulāre), equivalent to re- re- + capitulātus; see capitulate

Examples for recapitulate

He had left out the feminine element; obviously he must recapitulate.

Is it necessary to recapitulate all this, Monsieur Chauvelin?

Let us now recapitulate the more prominent facts of this essay.

And here let me recapitulate—for there is no harm in repetition.

He shook his head and mournfully began to recapitulate the day he had just spent.

"Let us recapitulate," said the captain, his glance beaming with earnestness.

He was impelled to recapitulate his injunctions; but he forbore.

Like Socrates, we may recapitulate the virtues of the philosopher.

Let us recapitulate the strange metamorphoses which I have sketched.

So that there may be no misunderstandings, I will recapitulate.