(~s, recapturing, ~d)
1.
When soldiers ~ an area of land or a place, they gain control of it again from an opposing army who had taken it from them.
They said the bodies were found when rebels ~d the area.
VERB: V n
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Recapture is also a noun.
...an offensive to be launched for the ~ of the city.
N-SING: usu N of n
2.
When people ~ something that they have lost to a competitor, they get it back again.
I believe that he would be the best possibility to ~ the centre vote in the forthcoming election.
VERB: V n
3.
To ~ a person or animal which has escaped from somewhere means to catch them again.
Police have ~d Alan Lord, who escaped from a police cell in Bolton.
VERB: V n
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Recapture is also a noun.
...the ~ of a renegade police chief in Panama.
N-SING: usu n of n
4.
When you ~ something such as an experience, emotion, or a quality that you had in the past, you experience it again. When something ~s an experience for you, it makes you remember it.
He couldn’t ~ the form he’d shown in getting to the semi-final...
VERB: V n