Meaning

4 senses
  1. To seal (something) again with a cap.

    They're planning to recap those oil wells permanently.

  2. (Canada, US)To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing on a new outer portion.

    They buy a lot of camelback because they recap a lot of truck tires for trailer fleets.

  3. To recapitulate.

    Near-synonyms: review; overview

    Before we begin with today's agenda, Alice, would you please recap the decisions that were made last week?

  4. (informal)To replace capacitors in electronic equipment.

More definitions
  • summarize briefly

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Please recap the most important points.

  2. Let me recap what was said.

  3. Make sure you recap what we've just talked about.

  4. Sami gave us a recap of his experience with that company.

  5. As a point of departure, let me recap what we did last week.

Origin

From re- + cap. Clipping of recapitulation. From re- + cap (capacitor).

From re- + cap.

Clipping of recapitulation.

From re- + cap (capacitor).

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Forms

recaps, recapping, recapped, recapped
Base formrecap · to recap
3rd person singularrecaps
Present participlerecapping
Past simplerecapped
Past participlerecapped

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrecap
he, she, itrecaps

Past simpleLesson

all personsrecapped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave recapped
he, she, ithas recapped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill recap

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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