Definitions For Recapture

noun

  • The act of taking something back
  • A legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount
  • To catch (someone or something that has escaped)
  • To gain control of (a place or position) again after losing it
  • To experience or bring back (a feeling, quality, or situation) again

verb

  • Capture again
  • Take up anew
  • Experience anew
  • Take back by force, as after a battle

Is Recapture a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
16

The word Recapture is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Recapture in a Sentence

  • The recapture of the territory may take longer than expected
  • The guards recaptured the escaped prisoner.
  • The soldiers recaptured the hill they had lost the day before.
  • In the final lap of the race, he recaptured the lead.

Synonyms for Recapture

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