to recapitulate

Examples

• All

• The promise of new life that flows from the suffering God hanging from a tree is recapitulated in the ministry of the wounded Spirit, whose solidarity with a broken world is a token of divine forbearance and love.

  Academic text (2000)

• Auerbach's work has been mostly taken as recapitulating a general thematics and the cultural vicissitudes of exile for Said.

  Academic text (2004)

• My career recapitulated the interests of my childhood.

  Blog text (34)

• "Jaws recapitulates, leading me out of the turf.

  Fiction book (1999)

• I will be borrowing this perspective to suggest that William James recapitulates Hamlet's itinerary.

  Academic text (1997)

• The ending of that novel, though, recapitulates the opening paragraph's language about demolished houses, a recursion that severely compromises any sanguine reading.

  Academic text (2016)

• A sonata had four separate parts called movements, the last of which recapitulated the first, and hers started with a chord in bass and treble. She could almost see the design on the page and gazed hard at the wooden filigree of the music rack.

  Fiction book (1995)

• A respondent to Elizabeth Costello in The Lives of Animals (1999) later recapitulates this view, positing that, "To an insect, death is the breakdown of systems that keep the physical organism functioning, and nothing more" (64).

  Academic text (2018)

• Along with narratives like Knockwood's, it corroborates Stuckey's contention in The Violence of Literacy that "the violence of literacy is the violence of the milieu it comes from, promises, recapitulates."

  Academic text (1998)

• During her presentation, she made sure to recapitulate the main findings of her research to reinforce the key concepts.

Synonyms

R

to repeat

vsto recapitulate

∞ 1.0

To do or say something again

applies specifically to restating the main theme often near the end

R

to reiterate

vsto recapitulate

100 5.9

To say something again to make it clear

repeats the core theme as a concluding restatement rather than mere emphasis

R

to revisit

vsto recapitulate

72 3.7

To return to an idea or topic to think about it again

revisits the central theme as a final restatement rather than to reexamine it

R

to recap

vsto recapitulate

38 3.4

To briefly repeat the main points

is a fuller closing restatement of the main theme rather than a short summary

R

to restate

vsto recapitulate

23 3.4

To say something again in a different, clearer way

focuses on repeating the central theme later rather than only rewording it

R

to reprise

vsto recapitulate

14 7.6

To perform a song or part again

is a later restatement of the main theme near the end of a work

R

to rearticulate

vsto recapitulate

1 6.7

To say something again in a clearer way

repeats the principal theme later rather than mainly changing its wording

R

to reprize

vsto recapitulate

• Archaic

9.9

To repeat an earlier theme in music or writing

is used to restate the main theme often toward a work's end

R

to redistill

vsto recapitulate

7.4

To make the main idea shorter and clearer

repeats the main theme as a structural closing rather than only condensing it

Antonyms

I

to ignore

∞ 1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

O

to omit

66 3.4

Leave out something, for example a name, on purpose or by accident

How Repeated

to echo

35 1.4

to recapitulate

• Formal

1 8.6

to reprise

14 7.6

to restate

23 3.4

to allude

88 6.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology