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Reclaim vs Recapture - What's the difference?

reclaim | recapture |

As verbs the difference between reclaim and recapture

is that reclaim is (to return land to a suitable condition) To return land to a suitable condition for use while recapture is to capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss.

As nouns the difference between reclaim and recapture

is that reclaim is the calling back of a hawk while recapture is the act of capturing again.

reclaim

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (senseid)To return land to a suitable condition for use.
  • To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
  • To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
  • * Milton
    • They, hardened more by what might most reclaim , / Grieving to see his glory took envy.
  • * Rogers
    • It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
  • * Sir E. Hoby
    • Your error, in time reclaimed , will be venial.
  • To claim something back; to repossess.
  • To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
  • * Dryden
    • an eagle well reclaimed
  • To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  • * Dryden
    • The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
  • To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
  • * Waterland
    • Scripture reclaims', and the whole Catholic church ' reclaims , and Christian ears would not hear it.
  • * Bain
    • At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.
    (Fuller)
  • (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
    • (Spenser)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
  • (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
    • The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].
  • An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

    • Anagrams

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    recapture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of capturing again.
  • :The recapture of the escaped prisoner made the news.
  • That which is captured back; a prize retaken.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss
    • The warden hoped to recapture the escaped prisoners before they reached the town.
    ''New engine designs permit the vehicle to recapture the kinetic energy lost through braking
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Gerrard was replaced by Michael Carrick at the start of the second half and a sloppy passage of play followed in which England struggled to recapture the momentum and rhythm of their earlier work.}}