CAPTURE


Meaning of CAPTURE in English

(~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

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

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