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02274482-v:
seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
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02303878-v:
capture after a fight
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00088481-n:
the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
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00089027-n:
the act of conquering
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02636123-a:
of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself
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09802641-n:
someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission)
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00809465-n:
the act of having and controlling property
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the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder
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00085432-n:
wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority)
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the act of conquering
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(chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed
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a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces
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a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters
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the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife
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(law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
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a Crusade from 1096 to 1099; captured Jerusalem and created a theocracy there
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a mission to capture or defend something
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take or capture by force
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in 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants
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World War II (February 1944); American infantry landed and captured a Japanese stronghold
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a pitched battle in which American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775
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an amphibious assault in the Pacific in World War II (January 1944); American forces landed and captured a Japanese air base
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a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese
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US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944; it was an important air base until the end of World War II
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a battle in World War II; the port was captured by United States troops in September 1943
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in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines
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02221571-n:
any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species
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02272938-v:
conquer anew
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02274482-v:
seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
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02303878-v:
capture after a fight
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02304507-v:
be captured
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(chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank
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an agreement first drawn up in Geneva in 1864 and later revised concerning the treatment of captured and wounded military personnel and civilians in wartime
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military personnel lost by death or capture
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a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999
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an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies
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a bridgehead seized by airborne troops
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a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation
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originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites); above it was built a temple and later the name extended to the whole hill; finally it became a synonym for the city of Jerusalem
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a county in southern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that was captured by Wessex in the 9th century
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a town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England; in 1347 it was captured by the English king Edward III after a long siege and remained in English hands until it was recaptured by the French king Henry II in 1558
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a city in southeastern Spain that was the capital of the Moorish kingdom until it was captured by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492; site of the Alhambra (a palace and fortress built by Moors in the Middle Ages) which is now a major tourist attraction
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a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there
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(Greek mythology) a mythical giant who was a thief and murderer; he would capture people and tie them to an iron bed, stretching them or hacking off their legs to make them fit; was killed by Theseus
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09899782-n:
someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
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(rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot
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someone who enters by force in order to conquer
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king of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410)
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a soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British (1738-1789)
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British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in 1777 (1722-1792)
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king of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477)
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(Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)
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son of Henry II and King of England from 1189 to 1199; a leader of the Third Crusade; on his way home from the crusade he was captured and held prisoner in the Holy Roman Empire until England ransomed him in 1194 (1157-1199)
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United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)
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Indian general and nawab of Bengal who opposed the colonization of India by England; he captured Calcutta in 1756 and many of his prisoners suffocated in a crowded room that became known as the Black Hole of Calcutta; he was defeated at the battle of Plassey by a group of Indian nobles in alliance with Robert Clive (1728-1757)
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Soviet general who during World Warr II directed the counteroffensive at Stalingrad and relieved Leningrad and captured Berlin (1896-1974)
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