Retake and Take

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Retake verb - Take back by force, as after a battle.

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Take and retake are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Take" instead the word "Retake" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: retaking, retaken

Take verb - To reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms.

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Retake and take are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Retake" with "Take", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: taking, taken, taker

Shocker discovers a lost Core Medal dropped by the time travelling Greeed Ankh and uses it to retake control of the Double Riders and take over the world.

Source: Grand Unified Timeline / The Age Of Rebellion
If another civilization is getting ahead of you technologically, you can take over a city (which allows you to steal a tech), move all of your units out of the city, let them take it back, then retake it before they have time to fortify their troops.

Source: Game Breaker / Civilization
Caesar's Legion, under the command of Legate Graham, pushes the NCR out of the dam and into the nearby town of Boulder City, only to take catastrophic losses when the NCR detonates a cache of explosives buried under the town and proceeds to rout the Legion and retake the dam.

Source: Grand Unified Timeline / The Twenty Third And Twenty Fourth Centuries

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