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RECONQUER
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they reconquer ... he / she / it reconquers
Past simple: reconquered
-ing form: reconquering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
The country reconquered the territory lost in the previous war
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "reconquer" is one way to...):
recapture; retake (take back by force, as after a battle)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something