recapitulate
/ɹiːkəˈpɪtʃʊleɪt/
recapitulate verb: to summarize or repeat in concise form.
Verb
recapitulate (third-person singular simple present recapitulates, present participle recapitulating, simple past and past participle recapitulated)
- To summarize or repeat in concise form.
- The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.
- We still have five minutes left, so let's recapitulate the lecture.
- To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
- Being the Joshua/Atonement stanza of this cycle, the fact that the seven steps seem to recapitulate (or precapitulate?) the pattern of dominion is interesting. Situated at the very “gate” of Canaan, was this offer a temptation to be resisted like the plunder of Jericho (Joshua 6:18), or was it sin...2017 April 8, Michael Bull, “Sex, Lies, and Murder: Acts II & III”, in BibleMatrix.com, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2025
- 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.
- Similarly this concept of unity provided a powerful impetus for embryological studies and the idea that fetal development recapitulates the steps of phylogenetic development.1997 May, G. A. Bray, “Growth of a Molecular Base for Feeding”, in Obesity Research, volume 5, number 3, page 272
recapitulate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
recapitulate in Tamil
- முக்கிய அம்சங்களைத் திரும்பக் கூறு, பொழிப்பாகக் கூறு, தொகுத்துரை, தலைப்புகளை வரிசையாகப் படி
recapitulate in Urdu
- دہرانا, خلاصہ بنانا
recapitulate in Malayalam
- ചുരുക്കിപ്പറയുക, സംഗ്രഹിക്കുക, ആവർത്തിക്കുക
recapitulate in Kannada
- ಇನ್ನೊಮ್ಮೆ ಹೇಳಿ, ಚುಟುಕಾಗಿ ಹೇಳು
More languagesFewer languages
- recapitulate in Arabic
- لَخَّصَ laḵḵaṣa
Examples of recapitulate in a sentence
- More recently, the same authors aprimorated the intestine-on-a-chip to recapitulate the dynamic host-microbiota interface.
- This animal model has the potential to recapitulate the potential neuropathogenicity of SAFV-3.
- DNA has given us the equipment to recapitulate–precapitulate the major DNA solutions—past and future.
Synonyms of recapitulate
11 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Antonyms
Forms of recapitulate
| third-person singular present | recapitulates |
|---|---|
| present participle | recapitulating |
| past participle | recapitulated |
| past | recapitulated |
Origin of recapitulate
From Late Latin recapitulātus, past participle of recapitulāre (“to go over the main points of a thing again”), from re- (“again”) + capitulum (“head, main part, chapter”), from caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix); see capitulate. By surface analysis, re- + capitulate.
Words formed from recapitulate
Questions about recapitulate
- What does recapitulate mean?
- Recapitulate means to summarize or repeat in concise form.
- What is recapitulate in Tamil?
- Recapitulate in Tamil is முக்கிய அம்சங்களைத் திரும்பக் கூறு, பொழிப்பாகக் கூறு, தொகுத்துரை. See Recapitulate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is recapitulate?
- Recapitulate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce recapitulate?
- Recapitulate is pronounced /ɹiːkəˈpɪtʃʊleɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of recapitulate?
- The past tense of recapitulate is recapitulated.
Words near recapitulate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: recapitulate (page history and authors); recapitulate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recapitulate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recapitulate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recapitulate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recapitulate.wav.
Cite this entry: “recapitulate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/recapitulate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.