[
US
/ɹiˈkæptʃɝ/
]
[ UK /ɹɪkˈæptʃɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪkˈæptʃɐ/ ]
VERB
-
take up anew
The author recaptures an old idea here -
take back by force, as after a battle
The military forces managed to recapture the fort -
experience anew
She could not recapture that feeling of happiness -
capture again
recapture the escaped prisoner
NOUN
- the act of taking something back
- a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount
How To Use recapture In A Sentence
- How many bands have attempted to recapture the mood and style of their naive years? Times, Sunday Times
- Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower. Archive 2008-06-01
- Maybe we're all trying to recapture that feeling of acceptance.
- He was recaptured four years later in New Brunswick and extradited to the States.
- It is particularly popular with ‘born-again’ bikers - older motorcyclists who buy high-powered machines in a bid to recapture the thrills of their youth.
- Yet he recaptured the Challenge Cup he won two years ago in such comfort the whole match had a certain air of inevitability. The Sun
- Like other collectors I am also trying to recapture the feelings of childhood.
- To unscrew the casing is to throw open such a Pandora's Box of nuts and springs, axles, ratchets and governors as to confound all attempts to recapture them.
- The growth figures suggest Ireland may recapture some of the form of the boom years when economic growth peaked at 11.5 per cent.
- He performed well there but did not quite recapture the glory of his Ashes summer. The Sun