recapturen.
/(ˌ)riːˈkaptʃə/, U.S. /riˈkæptʃər/ 1. The action or fact of capturing, or being captured, a second time; recovery or retaking by capture. Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > capturing > recapturing
retaking1436
reception1622
recaption1655
recapture1676
the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > [noun] > again
reprinse1592
reprisal1612
recaption1655
recapture1676
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > [noun] > captivity > capture > again
recapture1676
1676 C. Molloy De Jure Maritimo i. i. 6 Although a larger time then 24 hours happens, between the capture and recapture,..yet restitution may be made.
1710 A. Boyer Hist. Reign Queen Anne: Year the Eighth i. 160 She [sc. the Bristol] sunk within two or three hours of her recapture.
1751 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria Rediviva 280 There is no room to claim a Loss in Cases of a Recapture.
1787 R. Mackenzie Strictures Tarleton's Hist. Campaigns (title page) The Re-capture of the Island of New Providence.
1815 H. Wheaton Digest of Law Maritime Captures & Prizes viii. 237 He has only been deprived of its possession, to which he has been restored by the recapture.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 209 The simplicity of Giotto was gone beyond recapture.
1903 B. Harte Trent's Trust 261 A guarded account of the pursuit of the Indians and the recapture of the arms.
1939 S. Desmond Reincarnation for Everyman xii. 90 We can, through the recapture of the memory of our past lives, see the road we have travelled down the centuries to reach our present life.
1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) iv. 87 My brother and I..managed to evade her nervous vigilance by boarding a steamer that took us quite a way down the Rhine before recapture.
1992 G. Hancock Sign & Seal ii. v. 90 [He] had made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem shortly before the recapture of the Holy City by the Saracens.
2. concrete. Something (esp. a ship) which has been captured again.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > [noun] > captivity > a captive > thing or animal > recaptured
recapture1750
1750 R. Heath Nat. & Hist. Acct. Scilly 156 This Ship [sc. Phœnix] was a Re-capture from the French.
1762 Petition Honorable K. Stewart 5 Upon the Pretence of the Prize being a lawful Recapture from the Enemy.
1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer II. xiii. 175 Men..were put on board the recapture.
1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene III. viii. 134 As he hauled down his colours, and was taken possession of by the enemy, he now becomes a recapture.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. vii. 116 After carrying his re-capture safely home, and erecting the hive on a three-legged stand..he hastened to rejoin Simon.
1990 Jrnl. Zool. 220 442 By the third night the catch consisted entirely of recaptures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
recapturev.
/(ˌ)riːˈkaptʃə/, U.S. /riˈkæptʃər/ 1. transitive. To capture again; to recover by capture.
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society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > capture or acquire by conquest > recapture
retake1594
recarry1675
recapture1784
the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > catch or capture [verb (transitive)] > again
recover1575
recatch1762
recapture1784
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > deprive of liberty by restraint [verb (transitive)] > take captive > again
recover1575
recapture1784
1784 tr. M. de la Tour Hist. Ayder Ali Khan II. 257 All the places formerly taken by the English being recaptured.
1799 Hull Advertiser 6 Oct. 3/2 She..had been in possession of the French a day or two only prior to her being re-captured.
1834 F. B. Head Bubbles from Brunnen 284 They had nowhere to run but to their own homes, where they would instantly have been recaptured.
1897 Daily News 24 Mar. 7/6 All the looted cattle and women were recaptured.
1936 Street & Smith's Western Story Mag. 14 Mar. 55/1 I reckon from what the tramp said, yesterday, when we recaptured him, that he wasn't anxious to break jail.
1989 N. Herman Too Long Child ii. v. 147 Her youngest was recaptured from the Indians and restored to relatives.
2005 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 21/5 As I understand it, all the animals would have been radio-tagged and..could have been recaptured.
2. transitive. figurative. To recover or regain (something lost); to re-experience (a past emotion, etc.).
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)] > again
reconjure1611
reproduce1756
reimagine1825
recreate1837
reconstruct1838
recapture1845
revisualize1896
1845 R. Browning Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 8 That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 185 The sound was gone, nor could his closest hearkening recapture it.
1933 V. Brittain Test. of Youth iv. 185 Only once, on the Sunday evening, did we recapture for a few moments the lovely enchantment of New Year's Eve.
1954 N. Coward Diary 12 Sept. (2000) 241 Memories of the visual aspects of the holiday I can recapture by looking at my stereoscopic photographs.
2005 R. Tope Cotswold Killing xvii. 244 Such moments were impossible to recapture later. They were by definition transient.
Derivatives
reˈcaptured adj.
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society > armed hostility > defeat > [adjective] > captured > recaptured
retaken1658
recaptured1780
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > [adjective] > capturing > made captive > again
recaptured1780
1780 Act 20 Geo. III c. 23 in Statutes at Large 523 Immediately upon such recaptured Collier or Coasting Vessel..being brought into Port.
1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. xiii. 198 Dreaming that he was a knight of ancient chivalry, holding his midnight vigils before the tent of a re-captured princess.
1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon II. viii. 210 A recaptured slave who had been badly wounded in his mad attempt at evasion, and had been brought to the hospital to die.
1937 C. W. Elliott Winfield Scott xl. 533 The American artillery opened again on the recaptured guns.
2007 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 5 Dec. Neither the Chief Minister nor any of the party leaders have bothered to visit their recaptured territory.
reˈcapturer n.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > victor or conqueror > [noun] > captor
captor1688
recaptor1751
recapturer1803
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > [noun] > captivity > capturing > one who captures > again
recapturer1803
1803 J. Madison Let. 22 Feb. in Papers (Secretary of State Series) (1998) IV. 337 This rate of Salvage appears to have been adopted from the laws of the United States, as then applicable to recapturers of American property.
1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae xi. 296 The Master..thanked his recapturers as for a service.
1987 Amer. Anthropologist 89 522 The documentors present themselves as recapturers of traditions lost or in danger of loss.
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