recapture
verb C2- To capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss. · The warden hoped to recapture the escaped prisoners before they reached the town.· New engine designs permit the vehicle to recapture the kinetic energy lost through braking.
- To capture an opponent's piece immediately after it has captured on the same square.
He/she/it recaptures · Past recaptured · Past participle recaptured · -ing form recapturing
Verb forms
- Base form
- recapture
- He/she/it
- recaptures
- Past
- recaptured
- Past participle
- recaptured
- -ing form
- recapturing
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This adjoins the lower part of the governor’s apartments, and were we to work our way through, we should only get into some lock-up cellars, where we must necessarily be recaptured.
“To hear a hound upon the moor would not work a hard man like this convict into such a paroxysm of terror that he would risk recapture by screaming wildly for help.
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