The capture of the prince by the king led to another war.
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Capture
//ˈkæp.ʃə//
Synonyms for "capture" (145 found)
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Closest matches (29)
Strong matches (44)
Related words (72)
holdhookhuntinterestkidnappinglandlay hold ofluremakemake a killingmake an arrestnabnabbingnailnetnettingnickobtainoccupypick up
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picking uppinchplunderpossessionpower grabprehendprehensionprocurepullpull downput under arrestreaprun inrunning insackscoresecureseizeseizureseizure of powersnapsnaresnatchsnatchingsurprisetaketake captivetake hold oftake intake into custodytake prisonertake the caketakingtaking intaking into custodytrackwinwin outwin the battlewin the laurelswin the palmwin the prizewin through
Noun(1 words)
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1 entriesis a
4 entriesmanner of
4 entriesrelated to
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1 entriesTranslations
183 translations across 53 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kap verb (take control of)
Amharic
1 entries- ማረከ verb (take control of)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- ἅλωσις noun (act of capturing)
- ζωγρέω verb (take control of)
- ἁλίσκομαι verb (take control of)
Arabic
2 entries- أَسْر noun (act of capturing)
- أَسَرَ verb (take control of)
Argobba
1 entries- ማረካ verb (take control of)
Armenian
4 entries- առում noun (act of capturing)
- գերեվարում noun (act of capturing)
- գրավում noun (act of capturing)
- առնել verb (take control of)
Bulgarian
4 entries- пленник noun (something that has been captured)
- пленяване noun (act of capturing)
- плячка noun (something that has been captured)
- хващане noun (act of capturing)
Catalan
2 entries- captura noun (act of capturing)
- capturar verb (take control of)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏴᎩᏗᎠ verb (take control of)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 捉到 verb (take control of)
- 食 verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 佔領 /占领 noun (act of capturing)
- 捕獲 /捕获 noun (act of capturing)
- 佔領 /占领 verb (take control of)
- 吃 verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
Czech
4 entries- zajmutí noun (act of capturing)
- vzít verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
- zachytit verb (store, record)
- zachytit verb (reproduce convincingly)
Dutch
1 entries- slaan verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- авалташ verb (take control of)
Egyptian
1 entries- a-H-T24 verb (take control of)
Esperanto
3 entries- kapto noun (act of capturing)
- kapti verb (take control of)
- kapti verb (store, record)
Finnish
4 entries- siepattu noun (something that has been captured)
- sieppaus noun (act of capturing)
- kaapata verb (take control of)
- lyödä verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
French
4 entries- capture noun (act of capturing)
- prisonnier noun (something that has been captured)
- capturer verb (take control of)
- capturer verb (reproduce convincingly)
Galician
2 entries- captura noun (act of capturing)
- capturar verb (take control of)
Georgian
1 entries- დატყვევება noun (act of capturing)
German
4 entries- Erfassung noun (act of capturing)
- Fang noun (act of capturing)
- Festnahme noun (act of capturing)
- Gefangennahme noun (act of capturing)
Hungarian
3 entries- elfogás noun (act of capturing)
- elfog verb (take control of)
- elkap verb (take control of)
Irish
1 entries- gabháil noun (act of capturing)
Italian
4 entries- catturare verb (store, record)
- catturare verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
- mangiare verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
- prendere verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
Japanese
4 entries- 捕獲 noun (act of capturing)
- とる verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
- 捉える verb (reproduce convincingly)
- 捕獲する verb (take control of)
Khmer
1 entries- ចាប់ verb (take control of)
Korean
2 entries- 생포 noun (act of capturing)
- 포획하다 verb (take control of)
Latin
3 entries- captūra noun (act of capturing)
- captūra noun (something that has been captured)
- capiō verb (take control of)
Latvian
1 entries- sagrābt verb (take control of)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pagrobti verb (take control of)
Mongolian
2 entries- барих verb (take control of)
- олзлох verb (take control of)
Māori
3 entries- hopukanga noun (act of capturing)
- pāhoro noun (act of capturing)
- whakaraunga noun (act of capturing)
Old English
3 entries- fenġ noun (act of capturing)
- fenġ noun (something that has been captured)
- ġefōn verb (take control of)
Old Turkic
1 entries- 𐰞 verb (take control of)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- طوتمق verb (take control of)
Persian
2 entries- بازگیری noun (act of capturing)
- اسیر کردن verb (take control of)
Polish
2 entries- zająć verb (take control of)
- zbić verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
Portuguese
4 entries- captura noun (act of capturing)
- captura noun (something that has been captured)
- capturar verb (take control of)
- capturar verb (store, record)
Romanian
2 entries- capturare noun (act of capturing)
- prinde verb (take control of)
Russian
4 entries- захва́т noun (act of capturing)
- пле́нная noun (something that has been captured)
- пле́нник noun (something that has been captured)
- пле́нница noun (something that has been captured)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- glacadh noun (act of capturing)
- beò-ghlac verb (take control of)
- glac verb (take control of)
Slovak
3 entries- chytiť verb (take control of)
- zachytiť verb (store, record)
- zachytávať verb (store, record)
Slovene
4 entries- ujeti verb (take control of)
- ujeti verb (store, record)
- vzeti verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
- zajeti verb (take control of)
Spanish
4 entries- captura noun (act of capturing)
- capturar verb (take control of)
- capturar verb (store, record)
- capturar verb (reproduce convincingly)
Swahili
2 entries- nasa verb (take control of)
- nasa verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
Swedish
2 entries- ta verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
- tillfångata verb (take control of)
Thai
1 entries- ยึด verb (take control of)
Tigrinya
1 entries- መረኸ verb (take control of)
Turkish
2 entries- ele geçirmek verb (take control of)
- yemek verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
Ukrainian
4 entries- бра́нець noun (something that has been captured)
- бра́нка noun (something that has been captured)
- захо́плення noun (act of capturing)
- поло́нення noun (act of capturing)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bắt verb (take control of)
- ăn verb (remove or take control of opponent’s piece)
Welsh
1 entries- dal verb (take control of)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאַנגען verb (take control of)
Sample sentences
28 total sentences available.
I go to bed early so I can get up to capture the sunrise.
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We want to capture all the uniqueness of each language. And we as well want to capture their evolution through time.
Source: tatoeba (704160)
To be honest, we came to capture you.
Source: tatoeba (800924)
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