(~s, capturing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
The guerrillas shot down one aeroplane and ~d the pilot...
The Russians now appear ready to ~ more territory from the Chechens.
...the murders of fifteen thousand ~d Polish soldiers.
VERB: V n, V n from n, V-ed
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Capture is also a noun.
...the final battles which led to the army’s ~ of the town...
The shooting happened while the man was trying to evade ~ by the security forces.
N-UNCOUNT: oft with poss
2.
If something or someone ~s a particular quality, feeling, or atmosphere, they represent or express it successfully.
Their mood was ~d by one who said, ‘Students here don’t know or care about campus issues.’
= encapsulate
VERB: no cont, V n
3.
If something ~s your attention or imagination, you begin to be interested or excited by it. If someone or something ~s your heart, you begin to love them or like them very much.
...the great names of the Tory party who usually ~ the historian’s attention.
...one man’s undying love for the woman who ~d his heart.
VERB: V n, V n
4.
If an event is ~d in a photograph or on film, it is photographed or filmed.
The incident was ~d on videotape...
The images were ~d by TV crews filming outside the base.
...photographers who ~d the traumatic scene.
VERB: be V-ed on/in n, be V-ed, V n, also V n on/in n
5.
If you ~ something that you are trying to obtain in competition with other people, you succeed in obtaining it.
In 1987, McDonald’s ~d 19 percent of all fast-food sales...
= win, secure
VERB: V n