Verb
- 1. recapitulate, recap, sum up, summarize, summarise, resume
- usage: summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"
- 2. recapitulate, duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate
- usage: repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
- 3. reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate, play, spiel
- usage: repeat an earlier theme of a composition
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