RECAPTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recapture mean? 

• RECAPTURE (noun)
  The noun RECAPTURE has 2 senses:

1. a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount

2. the act of taking something back

  Familiarity information: RECAPTURE used as a noun is rare.

• RECAPTURE (verb)
  The verb RECAPTURE has 4 senses:

1. experience anew

2. take up anew

3. take back by force, as after a battle

4. capture again

  Familiarity information: RECAPTURE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECAPTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("recapture" is a kind of...):

seizure (the taking possession of something by legal process)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of taking something back

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

recapture; retaking

Hypernyms ("recapture" is a kind of...):

recovery; retrieval (the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost))

Derivation:

recapture (capture again)

recapture (take back by force, as after a battle)

• RECAPTURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recapture    ... he / she / it recaptures   
Past simple: recaptured   
Past participle: recaptured   
-ing form: recapturing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Experience anew

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

She could not recapture that feeling of happiness

Hypernyms (to "recapture" is one way to...):

experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take up anew

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

The author recaptures an old idea here

Hypernyms (to "recapture" is one way to...):

capture (succeed in representing or expressing something intangible)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Take back by force, as after a battle

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

recapture; retake

Context example:

The military forces managed to recapture the fort

Hypernyms (to "recapture" is one way to...):

take (take by force)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recapture"):

reconquer (conquer anew)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

recapture (the act of taking something back)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Capture again

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

recapture; retake

Context example:

recapture the escaped prisoner

Hypernyms (to "recapture" is one way to...):

capture; catch; get (succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

recapture (the act of taking something back)

 Context examples 

The energy is recaptured by ATP synthase in the inner mitochondrial membrane.

(Electron Transport Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Observers with the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory were the first to recapture 2012 TC4, in late July 2017, using one of their large 8-meter aperture telescopes.

(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)

For the next four years, the scientists recaptured and retested each buffalo approximately once every six months.

(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)

Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the HISPANIOLA was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In the presence of dinitrophenol, energy is consumed to pump protons out of mitochondria, but this energy is not recaptured in chemical form in ATP.

(Electron Transport Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The inner mitochondrial membrane is impermeable to protons on its own, so the energy of the proton gradient is stable, waiting to be recaptured.

(Electron Transport Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)