verb [VN]
1 to win back a place, position, etc. that was previously taken from you by an enemy or a competitor:
Government troops soon recaptured the island.
2 to catch a person or an animal that has escaped
3 to bring back a feeling or repeat an experience that you had in the past:
He was trying to recapture the happiness of his youth.
recapture noun [U]:
the recapture of towns occupied by the rebels
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