Extend
Recapitulate
Recapitulate verb - To make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report).
Usage example: the professor told the students that their papers should not recapitulate the whole plot but should rather discuss in detail one particular incident they thought was interesting
Extend is an antonym for recapitulate.
Common collocations
| bit | extend bit | recapitulate bit |
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Recapitulate and Extend. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/extend/recapitulate
Extend & Recapitulate. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/extend/recapitulate>.
Recapitulate or Extend. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/extend/recapitulate.
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