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retook

verb as in resume

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The “Nueve” was representative of the quite heterogeneous forces that retook the city.

Gressly retook his seat and another young man approached the bench.

Relations between the Bush White House and Congress were notoriously frosty—even before Democrats retook it in 2006.

This morning early we got maxims on to each end of the place they had stormed, and then the Dublins retook it with the bayonet.

No effort was made to hold the settlement permanently, and the British from Detroit promptly retook it.

At different times we retook men that had been captives for varying lengths of time.

The reserves, however, held on, and the Inniskilling Fusiliers retook the trenches which the 57th had lost.

They retook the guns, but were sorely disappointed to discover that the Germans had rendered them useless.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to retook, such as: restore, take back, recover, reclaim, convert, and rescue.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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