verb
definition
To capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss.
example
New engine designs permit the vehicle to recapture the kinetic energy lost through braking.
Examples of recapturing in a Sentence
But in 1366 Tvrtko overcame all opposition at home, and forthwith embarked on a career of conquest, recapturing Hlum and annexing part of Dalmatia.
In 1638 he marched in person against the Persians and succeeded in recapturing Bagdad.
At first eminently successful, he drove the Austrians across the Danube, recapturing Nish, Vidin, Semendria and Belgrade; repulses were also inflicted on the Venetians and the Russians.
This protection was subsequently withdrawn, the rana having been guilty of treachery, and in 1783 Sindhia succeeded in recapturing the fortress of Gwalior, and crushed his Jat opponent by seizing the whole of Gohad.
It now remained to consolidate the later successes attained by the policy of the Valoisthe acquisition of the duchies of Burgundy and Brittany; but instead there was a sudden change and that policy seemed about to be lost in dreams of recapturing the rights of the Angevins ficence.
Kapila claims to be recapturing the visions of the ancient Vedic seers.