noun
- A legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount.
- The act of taking something back.
- synonyms: retaking
verb
- Experience anew.
- usage: "She could not recapture that feeling of happiness"
- Take up anew.
- usage: "The author recaptures an old idea here"
- Take back by force, as after a battle.
- usage: "The military forces managed to recapture the fort"
- synonyms: retake
- Capture again.
- usage: "recapture the escaped prisoner"
- synonyms: retake
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