Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - recapture

(recaptures, recapturing, recaptured) 1. When soldiers recapture an area of land or a place, they gain control of it again from an opposing army who had taken it from them. They said the bodies were found when rebels recaptured the area. VERB: V n • Recapture is also a noun. ...an offensive to be launched for the recapture of the city. N-SING: usu N of n 2. When people recapture something that they have lost to a competitor, they get it back again. I believe that he would be the best possibility to recapture the centre vote in the forthcoming election. VERB: V n 3. To recapture a person or animal which has escaped from somewhere means to catch them again. Police have recaptured Alan Lord, who escaped from a police cell in Bolton. VERB: V n • Recapture is also a noun. ...the recapture of a renegade police chief in Panama. N-SING: usu n of n 4. When you recapture something such as an experience, emotion, or a quality that you had in the past, you experience it again. When something recaptures an experience for you, it makes you remember it. He couldn’t recapture the form he’d shown in getting to the semi-final... VERB: V n