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recapitulate
verb
1 recapitulate
Summarize briefly:
— Let's recapitulate the main ideas.
synonym: recap.
Roget 85:
number,
count,
tally,
tell;
call over,
run over;
take an account of,
enumerate,
muster,
poll,
recite,
recapitulate;
sum;
sum up,
cast up;
tell off,
score,
cipher,
compute,
calculate,
suppute†,
add,
subtract,
multiply,
divide,
extract roots.
algebraize†.
check,
prove,
demonstrate,
balance,
audit,
overhaul,
take stock;
affix numbers to,
page.
amount to,
add up to,
come to.
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Roget 594:
describe;
set forth
etc.
(state)
535;
draw a picture,
picture;
portray
etc.
(represent)
554;
characterize,
particularize;
narrate,
relate,
recite,
recount,
sum up,
run over,
recapitulate,
rehearse,
fight one's battles over again.
unfold a tale
etc.
(disclose)
529;
tell;
give an account of,
render an account of;
report,
make a report,
draw up a statement.
detail;
enter into particulars,
enter into details,
descend to particulars,
descend to details;
itemize.
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Roget 596:
abridge,
abstract,
epitomize,
summarize;
make an abstract,
prepare an abstract,
draw an abstract,
compile an abstract
etc.
n..
recapitulate,
review,
skim,
run over,
sum up.
abbreviate
etc.
(shorten)
201;
condense
etc.
(compress)
195;
compile
etc.
(collect)
72.
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2 recapitulate
Repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life.
3 recapitulate
Repeat an earlier theme of a composition.
synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize.
Roget 104:
repeat,
iterate,
reiterate,
reproduce,
echo,
reecho,
drum,
harp upon,
battologize†,
hammer,
redouble.
recur,
revert,
return,
reappear,
recurse [Comp.];
renew
etc.
(restore)
660.
rehearse;
do over again,
say over again;
ring the changes on;
harp on the same string;
din in the ear,
drum in the ear;
conjugate in all its moods tenses and conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions†,
begin again,
go over the same ground,
go the same round,
never hear the last of;
resume,
return to,
recapitulate,
reword.
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Moby thesaurus: abbreviate, abridge, abstract, add up, battologize, bob, boil down, capsulize, cast up, cipher up, clip, compress, condense, contract, count up, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, detail, dock, elide, enumerate, epitomize, figure up, fill, foot up, foreshorten, give an encore, go over, go through, inventory, itemize, iterate, list, mow, nip, pad, poll, pollard, practice, prune, reaffirm, reap, reassert, recap, recite, reckon up, recount, reduce, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, repeat, reprint, restate, resume, retail, retell, retrench, review, reword, run over, say over, say over again, score up, shave, shear, shorten, snub, stunt, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, synopsize, take in, tally up, tautologize, telescope, tot up, total, total up, tote up, trim, truncate ... show more.
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