The act of taking something back

Usage examples of recapture.

Then that deranged half split down the middle and I became suddenly and mortally certain that Valerie had asked me to pilot the shoot as some sort of test, and that her selection of Acer was to let me know that I had missed my last chance to recapture her.

I have encouraged experimentation with the thought and methods of the past, a learned archaism which might recapture lost intentions and lost techniques.

Even some of the recaptured prisoners, now wearing chains, who were repairing the damage to the armoury stopped work to grin slyly at him.

Ilias gave him a tight smile back, then dodged sideways to recapture Balin as she ran toward one of the fallen Gardier rifles.

He petted Coffa again in hopes of recapturing some of the vivacity and honesty of those days.

I to see where the track led in a darkness only lifted slightly by a moon which occasionally peeped from behind the clouds, and I let my mind wander over the evening, trying to recapture that feeling that had been mine so recently and which I felt, with the greatest of sadness, to be ebbing slowly away.

That means we shall have to recapture the old one if it has been lost, and this disabled gate suggests strongly that it has.

The audio on the tape recaptured the radio transmissions between Johar and Samir and had been synchronized with the action.

How secondary were the colonies of North America was seen after the Revolution had become an armed struggle, when in 1778 Philadelphia was stripped of 5,000 troops for transfer to the West Indies to ward off French recapture, followed by a second convoy of four regiments to the Leewards and four more to Jamaica in 1779.

A gradual build would have been preferable, but once the film gets up to speed, there are plenty of good moments as the Hulk is captured, escapes, smashes stuff, gets recaptured, all leading to his final battle with the Absorbing Nick Nolte, looking here as ratty and forlorn as he did in his famous mug shot.

He shouted to her to remove it, and frantically groped in the depths of the geyser with his clamp, hoping to recapture the spouting pedicle by mere blind chance.

I mean to join them as soon as the rains are over, with enough men to cross the Valderra and recapture Suba.

Eleanor was beginning to recapture some of the earlier eager aching by the time Stian was done with the act.

Would she return to Avening and quiet country life, or had tonnish society and her family not just reclaimed but recaptured her?

It sounds to me as if the recapture of Tythe could prove very important toward ending the war.