verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing, noun | 1. | to capture again; recover by capture; retake. |
| 2. | (of a government) to take by recapture. |
| 3. | to recollect or reexperience (something past). |
| 4. | the recovery or retaking by capture. |
| 5. | the taking by the government of a fixed part of all earnings in excess of a certain percentage of property value, as in the case of a railroad. |
| 6. | International Law. the lawful reacquisition of a former possession. |
| 7. | the state or fact of being recaptured. |