Recapture

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of retaking or recovering.
  • n. The condition of having been retaken or recovered.
  • n. Law The act or an instance of retaking booty or goods.
  • n. Something recaptured.
  • n. The lawful taking by a government of a fixed amount of the profits of a public-service corporation in excess of a stipulated rate of return.
  • v. To capture again.
  • v. To recall: an attempt to recapture the past.
  • v. To acquire by the government procedure of recapture.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of capturing again.
  • v. to capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
  • n. That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
  • v. To capture again; to retake.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of retaking; particularly, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
  • n. That which is recaptured; a prize retaken.
  • To capture back or again; retake, particularly a prize which had been previously taken.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of taking something back
  • v. experience anew
  • n. a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount
  • v. take up anew
  • v. capture again
  • v. take back by force, as after a battle
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    retrieval    recovery    feel    experience    seizure    capture    get    catch   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    retake   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rapture    capture    enrapture    rapture   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ennobling    death    anticlimax    custodie    re-birth    rededication    land