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RECONQUER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reconquer mean?
• RECONQUER (verb)
The verb RECONQUER has 1 sense:
1. conquer anew
Familiarity information: RECONQUER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they reconquer ... he / she / it reconquers
Past simple: reconquered
Past participle: reconquered
-ing form: reconquering
... he / she / it reconquers Past simple: reconquered
Past participle: reconquered
-ing form: reconquering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conquer anew
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
The country reconquered the territory lost in the previous war
Hypernyms (to "reconquer" is one way to...):
recapture; retake (take back by force, as after a battle)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
I would not so soon relinquish the attempt to reconquer it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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