Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: recapture
IPA transcription: [ɹik'æptʃɚ]
Pronunciations of recapture
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verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: recapture
    Meaning: experience anew; "She could not recapture that feeling of happiness"
  • Synonyms: recapture
    Meaning: take up anew; "The author recaptures an old idea here"
Usage examples
  • Then, after some minutes, there crossed her face such a look as visits the face of one who, waking from sleep, strains his faculties to recapture some blissful and vanishing vision....
  • We had completed these arrangements for our protection after leaving Phutra when the Sagoths who had been sent to recapture the escaped prisoners returned with four of them, of whom Hooja was one.
  • At first he had taken by-paths, and crossed many fields, and changed his course several times, in case of pursuit; but now, feeling by this time safe from recapture, and the sun smiling brightly on him, and all Nature joining in a chorus of approval to the song of self-praise that his own heart was singing to him, he almost danced along the road in his satisfaction and conceit.
  • Mr. Losberne was with them, and would be for the next two days; but Rose was too well acquainted with the excellent gentleman's impetuosity, and foresaw too clearly the wrath with which, in the first explosion of his indignation, he would regard the instrument of Oliver's recapture, to trust him with the secret, when her representations in the girl's behalf could be seconded by no experienced person.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording First Crusade, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording British Empire, License CC BY-SA 4.0