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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kap-cher |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæp tʃər |
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Définition of captured
Origin :- 1540s, from Middle French capture "a taking," from Latin captura "a taking" (especially of animals), from captus (see captive).
- verb catch and forcefully hold
- One day he was detected and captured by the priests and made their slave.
- Extract from : « Understanding the Scriptures » by Francis McConnell
- Nine bodies of the enemy were left on the ground, and a standard was captured.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- We captured an immense amount of these stores, a portion of which we carried away.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- His own nephew was said to be among them; but him he would not serve, as he had been captured in a privateer.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Better kill a hundred friends, he thought, than be captured by a single pirate.
- Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- It captured and imprisoned the sounds as the photograph retained the images of light.
- Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
- Two of the "White-Caps" they captured and bound, and others they recognized.
- Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
- One of these boats had captured an enormous whale, which still had two harpoons in it.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Then the captured guns and other weapons were hidden and the dead buried.
- Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
- He was captured and held prisoner by some savage natives for a number of years.
- Extract from : « Frank Roscoe's Secret » by Allen Chapman
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