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recapture
What does recapture mean?
recapture (verb): experience anew.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use recapture in a sentence?
- She could not recapture that feeling of happiness. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
Where does recapture come from?
From re- + capture.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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empty of liquid
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