capture
/ˈkæp·tʃər/ v [T] (POSSESS)Definition
› to take someone as a prisoner, or to take something into your possession: These birds were captured in the wild in 1987. capture /ˈkæp·tʃər/, /-ʃər/ n [U] › They were shown on TV soon after their capture.
(Definition of capture v (POSSESS) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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