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récapituler — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • recapitulate verb To summarize or repeat in concise form.
  • summarize verb To reduce a longer piece of writing or speech down to its essential points.

Senses

récapituler is used for these senses in English:

  • recapitulate (ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.
  • summarize (ambitransitive) To prepare a summary of (something).
  • summarize (ambitransitive) To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.
  • wrap up (transitive, and, intransitive, idiomatic) To summarize or recapitulate.

recapitulate — full definition

  1. verb To summarize or repeat in concise form.
  2. verb To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
  3. verb 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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