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Capture

verb

(past & past part. captured; pres. part. capturing)

1.

Succeed in representing or expressing something intangible. "Capture an idea"

2.

Attract; cause to be enamored. Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance.

3.

Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase. Synonyms: catch, get. "Did you catch the thief?"

4.

Bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit. "The star captured a comet"

5.

Take possession of by force, as after an invasion. Synonyms: appropriate, conquer, seize. "The army seized the town" , "The militia captured the castle"

6.

Capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping. Synonym: catch.

noun

1.

The act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property. Synonyms: gaining control, seizure.

2.

A process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field.

3.

Any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle.

4.

The act of taking of a person by force. Synonym: seizure.

5.

The removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board.

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... talker. He seemed pleased to have us call on him, and told us the whole story of the capture of himself and the rest of the Africans. We had heard pretty much all of it before, but, of course, we had to ...

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... miseries, their sorrows, even their baseness lays hold of Sordello; it seems as if it were they who were about to make him their instrument, the voice through which their inarticulate griefs should find expression; he is captured by those whom he thought to capture. By all his personal connections he is of the Imperial party—a Ghibellin; but, studying the position of affairs, he becomes convinced that the cause of the Pope is one with the cause of the people. ...

— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden

... apathy of the popular heart and conscience; the degradation of the pulpit, which sealed the deed with its loud Amen! the mortal terror of a helpless and innocent race; the fierce assaults on peaceful homes; the stealthy capture, by day and by night, of unsuspecting free-born people; the blood shed on Northern soil; the mockeries of justice acted in United States courts; are they not all written in our country's history, and indelibly engraven on the memories ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

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