recapture
夺回,收复,夺回武器,收回
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Definitions
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re·cap·tured, re·cap·tur·ing.
- : to capture again; recover by capture; retake.
- : to take by recapture.
- : to recollect or reexperience.
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- : the recovery or retaking by capture.
- : 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.
- : International Law. the lawful reacquisition of a former possession.
- : the state or fact of being recaptured.
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Examples
The furnace owner offered a reward of three pounds each for their recapture.
The landowner will continue to come out ahead, but not as much as without land value recapture.
He is an expert on land value recapture and author of “Value Capture” and co-author of “Public Benefit Zoning.”
My strategy was to bring in the people we never had, not try to recapture the people we lost to Reagan.
Before modernism, designers were almost trying to recapture the past.
The protest at Recapture Canyon was non-violent, though there were guns present.
On each of these privileged descents into Recapture, we walked and climbed down.
Was it because your dad really liked those earlier sessions and wanted to recapture some of the magic?
More serious still was the news that Porter had been reinforced, and had attacked and expected to recapture the place.
All the town is talking of your capture of the French frigate, and the recapture of the two prizes that she had taken.
Michael, having failed with Prout, tried to recapture the emotion of his first religious experience at St. Bartholomew's.
The Swami made a determined effort to the spotlight.