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The act of taking of a person by force
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capture
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. succeed in representing or expressing something intangible; "capture the essence of Spring"; "capture an idea" attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: enamour , trance , catch , becharm , enamor , captivate , beguile ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem. 2 The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction. 3 Something that has been captured; a captive. 4 (context computing English) A particular match found for a pattern ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capture \Cap"ture\, n. [L. capture, fr. caper to take: cf. F. capture. See Caitiff , and cf. aptive .] The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal. Even with ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1795, from capture (n.); in chess, checkers, etc., 1820. Related: Captured ; capturing . Earlier verb in this sense was captive (early 15c.).
Usage examples of capture.
It spoke of Lauries sorrow at his passing, but it ended on a major chord, a note of triumph, then a silly little coda that made all who knew Roald laugh, for it somehow captured his raffish nature.
It was to the effect that an Abenaki Indian had just come over land from Acadia, with news that some of his tribe had captured an English woman near Portsmouth, who told them that a great fleet had sailed from Boston to attack Quebec.
It was too far back to Aberdeen to expect to be able to ride for assistance, enough assistance that the raiders, girl and all, might be captured without bloodshed.
About the year 1418 the Acolhuans were attacked by a kindred race, the Tepanecs, who, after a desperate struggle, captured their city, killed their monarch, and subjugated their kingdom.
Deutsch, as the only Cobra trainee from Adirondack, had obvious status as native authority on one of the two worlds the Trofts had captured.
On the other hand, the British captured some forts on the Mosquito shore from the Spaniards, and took Aera, on the coast of Africa, from the Dutch.
DSS agents would take the lead in debriefing him and attempting to capture Yousef.
A CHILLING WARNING Less than an hour after his capture, Ramzi Yousef was seated across a table from FBI Agents Garrett and Horton and DSS Agent Bill Miller.
Severus, ranged ahead and far to the sides to occupy prominent positions along the route and capture any Alemanni scouts they might encounter.
His work was finished in 1067, some thirteen years after Ibn Yasin, the Almoravid ruler of North Africa, had marched southward to invade those lands and had captured Aoudaghast, a tributary city of Ghana.
In 1585 the Moroccan sultan, Mulay Ahmed el-Mansur, seized from Songhay the great salt deposits of Taghaza, and took thereby the first step toward the sources of Sudanese gold which Moroccans believed they could capture just as the Almoravids long before them had believed.
Before relating that which I have to say about the Queen and her precautions against myself, I would not omit certain curious incidents during the journey that the King caused us to take in Alsatia and Flanders, when he captured Maestricht and Courtrai.
American from one of the aircraft downed yesterday who is alive, and if he is rescued or captured by a unit other than the Amn AlKhass, he could tell everything about your plan to defect.
However, to return in thought to the past, of which our present is the continuation: the old Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.
Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.