recaptured

Variant of recapture

transitive verb recaptured, recapturing

  1. to capture again; retake; get back by capture; reacquire
  2. ☆ to get by recapture ()
  3. to bring back by remembering: to recapture a feeling

noun

  1. a recapturing or being recaptured
  2. ☆ the placing in reserve or the taking by the government under law of a fixed portion of all business earnings exceeding a specified percentage of property value
  3. ☆ that which is recaptured
  4. postliminium
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