recapture
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- n a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount
- n the act of taking something back
- v experience anew
She could not recapture that feeling of happiness - v take up anew
The author recaptures an old idea here - v take back by force, as after a battle
The military forces managed to recapture the fort - v capture again
recapture the escaped prisoner
- We need to recapture the principle that you do well, but in the process of doing well, you give back.
- France's movie industry, the world's largest a century ago, has yet to recapture its New Wave eminence of the 1960s, when directors like Franois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were .
- In the newly rich country of Bolivia, they attempted to recapture the past by becoming badmen again.