re-take

A form of retake — To take something again.

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Meanings

verbre-take (third-person singular simple present re-takes, present participle re-taking, simple past re-took, past participle re-taken)

present singular third person re-takes · participle present re-taking · past re-took · participle past re-taken

  1. alternativeAlternative form of retake.

    Responding to more orders from Maltby, who already seems to have been quite out of touch with reality, at about 0230 hours on the 19th Colonel Sutcliffe sent his A Company, under Major A.B. Gresham, to try and re-take the Lookout and make another attempt on Mount Butler.

    2016, Brereton Greenhous, "C" Force to Hong Kong: A Canadian Catastrophe, Dundurn, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80
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APA

re-take. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-take

MLA

“re-take.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-take. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “re-take,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-take.

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