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retook

retook is the simple past 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.

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Questions about retook

What is retook the simple past of?
Retook is the simple past of retake.

Words near retook in the dictionary

  1. retold
  2. retone
  3. retoned
  4. retones
  5. retoning
  6. retook
  7. retool
  8. retoolable
  9. retooled
  10. retooler
  11. retoolers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retook (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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