capture

/ˈkæptʃər/ noun [U]

Definition

PRISONER › when someone is caught and made a prisoner: He shot himself to avoid capture.

CONTROL › when someone gets control of a place with force: the capture of the city by foreign troops

(Definition of capture noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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