Capture is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CAPTURE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to take by force or cunning
• (in chess and other board games) make a move that secures the removal of (an opposing piece) from the board
• (of a star, planet, or other celestial body) bring (a less massive body) permanently within its gravitational influence
• record accurately in words or pictures
• cause (data) to be stored in a computer
• absorb (an atomic or subatomic particle)
• (of a stream) divert the upper course of (another stream) by encroaching on its catchment area.
• To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.
• succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
• attract; cause to be enamored
• succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
• bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
• take possession of by force, as after an invasion
• capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
• take by force
• take into one's possession or control by force
NOUN:
• the action of capturing or of being captured
• a person or thing that has been captured
• The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
• The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
• The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.
• the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
• a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
• any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle
• the act of taking of a person by force
• the removal of an opponent\'s piece from the chess board
• capturing

Words related to CAPTURE

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Words that contain CAPTURE

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How to use CAPTURE in a sentence

• Magua had clearly led the party into a trap for purposes of his own, and Hawk-eye at once took steps to secure his capture.
• The news of this capture produced great exhilaration among the English and Burgundians.
• In fact, from the time when we dashed up the river bank till the capture of the battery, I saw nothing.
• Although it was strong, he hoped by the size of his army and the sudden terror of his appearance to alarm the inhabitants and capture it.
• After a violent encounter with his late keepers and a narrow escape from capture, in the midst of Elysium with Julia, her mother returned in despair.
• They intend to direct the labor revolt to the capture of the political machinery of society.
• Vicksburg stands on the top of a bluff which rises steep and straight 200 feet above the river, and had been so fortified that to capture it seemed impossible.
• The rude lodge, the great trees, and the fair girl standing there formed a scene of surpassing charm which many an artist would have given much to capture.
• Louis, and second in command at the capture of York Town.
• The task before him was to capture a force nearly equal to his own, protected by a strong fort well supplied for a siege.
• Soon afterwards the sun came out, and they saw before them the walls of the fort they had come to capture.
• There is a profane theory that several members of the Hungerford Club never catch the trout they pay so much to have the privilege of trying to capture.
• The capture of Atlanta and the march to the sea had ruined the railroads of Georgia, cutting off another huge slice of Confederate resources.
• And finally in this capture the whole city, as has been said, was destroyed.
• The President is still without information, either that the vessels are restored, or that you have any evidence to offer as to the place of capture.
• It was the truth, but I had been but a year in the Colonies at the time of my capture.
• It was one thing to surround them, another thing to capture them.
• Here he defeated Papius Mutilus, the Samnite Consul, and followed up his victory by the capture of the strong town of Bovianum.
• Vaughan, in his defence, declared that he had not been benefited to the amount of a single shilling by the capture of St.
• All thoughts of the capture of Canada had vanished, and peace reigned once more on the border line.
• The capture of this place insured to Ibrahim the possession of Lower Syria, and enabled him to advance in perfect security.
• Its capture by Sargon destroyed a rival of Assyrian trade, and opened the road to the Mediterranean to the armies of Assyria.
• His father, he says, used to spend hours after the candles were out telling him and his brothers about his capture and subsequent slavery.
• We were now within the rebel lines, and my capture might mean death.
• He said that if he wanted to he could capture the whole Post.
• Nor had they found any opportunity to capture Braxton Wyatt and his maps and plans.
• The sudden eagerness which Marion had shown when she saw him, and the way she had run after him, to him meant nothing less than an attempt to capture him then and there.

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