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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: recapitulate

recap

 verb
     
re‧cap past tense and past participle recapped, present participle recapping [intransitive and transitive]
to repeat the main points of something that has just been said:
Let me just recap what's been discussed so far.
recap on
to recap on the previous lecture
—re‧cap noun [countable]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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