Dictionary Entry
recapture
recapture is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
- 2noun
That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
- 3transitive verb
To capture again; to retake.
- 4noun
the act of taking something back
Synonyms
- 5noun
a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount
- 6verb
capture again
"recapture the escaped prisoner"
Synonyms
- 7verb
take up anew
"The author recaptures an old idea here"
- 8verb
experience anew
"She could not recapture that feeling of happiness"
- 9verb
take back by force, as after a battle
"The military forces managed to recapture the fort"
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