recapture

1. 1.

   a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount

   Broaderseizure
2. 2.

   the act of taking something back

   Synonymsretaking

   Broaderrecovery

Other forms of recapture

plural

recaptures·

past tense

recaptured·

present participle

recapturing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about recapture

What does recapture mean?

recapture means "experience anew". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recapture?

recapture has 3 syllables: re-cap-ture. The stress falls on "cap". In IPA it is /ɹiˈkæptʃɚ/.

What is another word for recapture?

Close synonyms include retake, retake, retaking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is recapture a common word?

recapture is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with recapture?

1 word rhymes with recapture. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.