recapitulate vs summarise

recapitulate and summarise both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recapitulate	No	No	Yes	No
summarise	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, summarise is a hypernym of recapitulate; that is, summarise is a word with a broader meaning than recapitulate:

Other hypernyms of recapitulate include resume, sum up, summarize.

recapitulate (verb)	summarise (verb)
summarize briefly	give a summary (of)
repeat an earlier theme of a composition	be a summary of
repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life