Definitions for recapture

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recapture re·cap·ture

Spelling: [ree-kap-cher]

IPA: /riˈkæp tʃər/

Recapture is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 332 anagrams from letters in recapture (aceeprrtu).

Definitions for recapture

noun

1. the recovery or retaking by capture.
2. the taking by the government of a fixed part of all earnings in excess of a certain percentage of property value, as in the case of a railroad.
3. International Law. the lawful reacquisition of a former possession.
4. the state or fact of being recaptured.

verb (used with object)

1. to capture again; recover by capture; retake.
2. (of a government) to take by recapture.
3. to recollect or reexperience (something past).

Origin of recapture

First recorded in 1745-55; re- + capture

Examples for recapture

Margaret sprang up and tried to recapture the cup which had just left her hand.

My strategy was to bring in the people we never had, not try to recapture the people we lost to Reagan.

He burned now to be avenged, and at all costs he would ride after and recapture her.

Was it because your dad really liked those earlier sessions and wanted to recapture some of the magic?

Birdie and Godley are at work upon a scheme for its recapture.

Before modernism, designers were almost trying to recapture the past.

Preventing his recapture, the mob bore him off to the Church of the Cerviti.

The protest at recapture Canyon was non-violent, though there were guns present.

I still felt that there was a chance for us to recapture the ship.

On each of these privileged descents into recapture, we walked and climbed down.