You can say that you are going to recap when you want to draw people's attention to the fact that you are going to repeat the main points of an explanation, argument, or description, as a summary of it. To recap briefly, an agreement negotiated to cut the budget deficit was rejected 10 days ago Can you recap the points included in the regional conference proposal? = sum up, recapitulate Recap is also a noun. Each report starts with a recap of how we did versus our projections. to repeat the main points of something that has just been said (recapitulate)