recapture
See also: recapturé
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æptʃə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]recapture (plural recaptures)
- The act of capturing again.
- Synonym: recatch
- The recapture of the escaped prisoner made the news.
- That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
- (finance) The retroactive collection of taxes that were not collectible at the time.
Translations
[edit]act of capturing again
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Verb
[edit]recapture (third-person singular simple present recaptures, present participle recapturing, simple past and past participle recaptured)
- To capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss.
- The warden hoped to recapture the escaped prisoners before they reached the town.
- New engine designs permit the vehicle to recapture the kinetic energy lost through braking.
- 1941 August, Charles E. Lee, “Railways of Italian East Africa—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:
- On the other hand, in Eritrea (once our Forces had recaptured Kassala on January 19) the drive was generally eastward towards the capital, Asmara, and the Red Sea port of Massaua.
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 118:
- One specimen of milberti was recaptured after being at liberty for ten years, and it had grown only twenty inches.
- 1991 December 8, William S. Hoggard, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 14:
- Seeking to recapture the laughter of life through correspondence.
- 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Gerrard was replaced by Michael Carrick at the start of the second half and a sloppy passage of play followed in which England struggled to recapture the momentum and rhythm of their earlier work.
- (chess) To capture an opponent's piece immediately after it has captured on the same square.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to capture something for a second time
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]recapture f (plural recaptures)
Galician
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[edit]recapture
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Portuguese
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[edit]recapture
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Spanish
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[edit]recapture
- inflection of recapturar:
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