recapitulate vs summarize

recapitulate and summarize both are verbs.

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

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

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

recapitulate (verb)	summarize (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