Usually means: Summarize or repeat in concise form.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word recapitulate:

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  1. recapitulate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. recapitulate: Merriam-Webster
  3. recapitulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. recapitulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. recapitulate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. recapitulate: Vocabulary.com
  7. recapitulate: Wordnik
  8. recapitulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. recapitulate: Wiktionary
  10. recapitulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. recapitulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. recapitulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Recapitulate, recapitulate: Dictionary.com
  14. recapitulate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Recapitulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. recapitulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. recapitulate: Rhymezone
  18. recapitulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. recapitulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. recapitulate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. recapitulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. recapitulate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recapitulate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recapitulate: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Recapitulate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.
verb:  (transitive) To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
verb:  (transitive) (biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.

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