recapitulate

  • 21recapitulate — verb (I, T) formal to repeat the main points of something that has just been said recapitulation noun (C, U) …

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  • 22recapitulate — v summarize, sum up; review, run over, go over, reword, restate, repeat, reiterate; recount, enumerate, relate, narrate, recite …

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  • 23recapitulate — re·ca·pit·u·late …

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  • 24recapitulate — re•ca•pit•u•late [[t]ˌri kəˈpɪtʃ əˌleɪt[/t]] v. lat•ed, lat•ing 1) to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize 2) dvl to repeat (ancestral evolutionary stages) during embryonic development or during a life… …

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  • 25recapitulate — [c]/rikəˈpɪtʃəleɪt / (say reekuh pichuhlayt) verb (recapitulated, recapitulating) –verb (t) 1. to review by way of an orderly summary, as at the end of a speech or discourse. 2. Zoology Obsolete (of a young animal) to repeat (ancestral… …

  • 26recapitulate —   v.t. repeat; summarize.    ♦ recapitulation, n.    ♦ recapitulation theory, theory that in its development an individual organism passes through all the stages of the history of the race to which it belongs.    ♦ recapitulative,    ♦… …

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  • 27recapitulate — v.tr. 1 go briefly through again; summarize. 2 go over the main points or headings of. Derivatives: recapitulative adj. recapitulatory adj. Etymology: L recapitulare (as RE , capitulum CHAPTER) …

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  • 28recap —  Recapitulate. Recapitulation …

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  • 29repeat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. iterate, quote, recite; redo, duplicate. See repetition, copy, similarity. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To do again] Syn. redo, remake, do over, play over, rehash, reciprocate, return, rework, reform,… …

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  • 30repeat — repeatable, adj. repeatability, n. /ri peet /, v.t. 1. to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis. 2. to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another: to repeat a sentence after the… …

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