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▪ I. recapture, n.|riːˈkæptjʊə(r)|
[f. re- + capture.]
1. The fact of taking, or being taken, a second time; recovery or retaking by capture.
1752Beawes Lex Mercat. 280 There is no room to claim a loss in cases of a recapture. 1787R. Mackenzie Strict. Tarleton's ‘Campaigns 1780–1’ title-p., The Recapture of the Islands of New Providence. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. x. 111, I learned too that Godfrey was playing the great man at Etah, defying recapture. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets vii. 209 The simplicity of Giotto was gone beyond recapture.
2. That which is captured again.
1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xxiii, After carrying his re-capture safely home, and erecting the hive on a three-legged stand,..he hastened to rejoin Simon.
▪ II. recapture, v.|riːˈkæptjʊə(r)|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To capture again; to recover by capture.
1799Hull Advertiser 6 Oct. 3/2 She..had been in possession of the French a day or two only prior to her being re-captured. 1834Sir F. B. Head Bubbles fr. Brunnen 284 They had nowhere to run but to their own homes, where they would instantly have been recaptured. 1899W. E. Norris Giles Ingilby viii, Something which every writer loses, as time goes on, and never can recapture.
Hence reˈcaptured ppl. a.; reˈcapturer.
1804Naval Chron. XI. 413 A recaptured brig of the convoy. 1889Stevenson Master of B. 296 The master..thanked his recapturers as for a service. |