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retake

1 verb
     
Related topics: Military, Education
re‧take1 past tense retook past participle retaken [transitive]
1PM to get control of an area again in a war [= recapture]:
an attempt to retake the city
2SE to take an examination again because you have previously failed it [= resit British English]
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