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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recapture
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
relive/recapture your youth (=do things you did when young, to try and experience youth again)
▪ The band’s fans are clearly reliving their youth.
▪ The sports car is an attempt to recapture his youth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
try
▪ None of the women doubted that Chechen fighters would try to recapture Grozny.
▪ If you are going grey, don't try to recapture the dark brown you were 20 years ago.
▪ I just wanted to open the throttle, get out of town and try to recapture some of that Misano magic.
▪ Now he is trying to recapture his old swing having attempted a Faldo-type swing refit which hasn't worked.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His book recaptures the excitement of life in the Old West.
▪ Nine of the fugitives were later recaptured.
▪ The prisoners were recaptured a few hours after their escape.
▪ Viet Cong forces quickly recaptured the soldiers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lot depends on whether Democrats recapture a majority in the Senate.
▪ Both have escaped and been recaptured since the Strangeways riot.
▪ By then D day was history, and the Allies had recaptured Paris.
▪ It was sixteen years since Wycliffe's last case in the town and he was recapturing the atmosphere of the place.
▪ Later the slave was recaptured and sentenced to die in the arena facing a wild beast.
▪ Would we have heard, down here in the pianura, if he had been recaptured or killed?
▪ You are recapturing the spirit and power that is integral to the freedom of the life you have chosen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recapture

Recapture \Re*cap"ture\, v. t. To capture again; to retake.

Recapture

Recapture \Re*cap"ture\ (r[-e]*k[a^]p"t[-u]r; 135), n.

  1. The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.

  2. That which is captured back; a prize retaken.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recapture

1680s; see re- "back, again" + capture (n.).

recapture

1783, from re- "back, again" + capture (v.). Related: Recaptured; recapturing.

Wiktionary
recapture

n. 1 The act of capture again. 2 That which is captured back; a prize retaken. vb. to capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss

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

  2. the act of taking something back [syn: retaking]

  3. v. experience anew; "She could not recapture that feeling of happiness"

  4. take up anew; "The author recaptures an old idea here"

  5. take back by force, as after a battle; "The military forces managed to recapture the fort" [syn: retake]

  6. capture again; "recapture the escaped prisoner" [syn: retake]

Wikipedia
Recapture

Recapture is a 1930 drama in three acts by Preston Sturges, his third play to appear on Broadway.

The Broadway production was directed by Don Mullally and produced by A. H. Woods. It opened on January 29, 1930 at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, and ran for 24 performances, closing in February of that year. According to Sturges, the play received "the most violently destructive notices [he] had seen in years."

Appearing in the cast were Melvyn Douglas and Glenda Farrell.

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.