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re-take

re-take is the alternative form of retake.

Meaning of retake

Verb

retake (third-person singular simple present retakes, present participle retaking, simple past retook, past participle retaken)

  1. To take something again.
  2. To take something back.
  3. To capture or occupy somewhere again.
    • The army tried repeatedly to retake the fort they had been driven from.
  4. To photograph or film again; to do another take.

See all 6 meanings of retake

Forms of re-take

third-person singular presentre-takes
present participlere-taking
pastre-took
past participlere-taken

Questions about re-take

What is re-take the alternative form of?
Re-take is the alternative form of retake.

Words near re-take in the dictionary

  1. re-swear
  2. re-swearing
  3. re-swears
  4. re-swore
  5. re-sworn
  6. re-take
  7. re-taken
  8. re-takes
  9. re-taking
  10. re-tease
  11. re-teased

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-take (page history and authors); retake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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