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    recapture
    /riːˈkaptʃə/

    verb

    • 1. capture (a person or animal that has escaped): "armed police have recaptured a prisoner who's been on the run for five days"

    noun

    • 1. an act of recapturing someone or something: "the recapture of the harbour of Bahia"

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  3. RECAPTURE definition: 1. to take something into your possession again, especially by force: 2. If something recaptures a…. Learn more.

  4. Recapture definition: to capture again; recover by capture; retake.. See examples of RECAPTURE used in a sentence.

  5. 1. : to capture again. 2. : to recover or take (as an excess or gain) by law or agreement. especially : to recover (a tax benefit) by higher or additional taxation of income or property that ceases to qualify for a credit or deduction or by taxing gain realized from the sale or exchange of such property.

  6. When you recapture something such as an experience, emotion, or a quality that you had in the past, you experience it again. When something recaptures an experience for you, it makes you remember it.

  7. RECAPTURE meaning: 1. to take something into your possession again, especially by force: 2. If something recaptures a…. Learn more.

  8. To recapture something is to get it back or catch it again. If you were the zookeeper at a very disorganized zoo, one of your jobs might be to recapture runaway baby pandas. The police might recapture an escaped prisoner, and when they do it they can call the act itself a recapture.

  9. 1. When soldiers recapture an area of land or a place, they gain control of it again from an opposing army who had taken it from them. [...] 2. When people recapture something that they have lost to a competitor, they get it back again. [...] 3. To recapture a person or animal which has escaped from somewhere means to catch them again. [...] More.

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