reconquer
Americanverb (used with object)
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reconquers,
present (3rd person singular)
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reconquered,
past participle, past
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reconquering
present participle
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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reconquersimple
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reconquerssimple
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have reconqueredperfect
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has reconqueredperfect
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am reconqueringprogressive
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are reconqueringprogressive
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is reconqueringprogressive
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have been reconqueringperfect progressive
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has been reconqueringperfect progressive
Past
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reconqueredsimple
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had reconqueredperfect
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was reconqueringprogressive
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were reconqueringprogressive
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had been reconqueringperfect progressive
Future
Example Sentences
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So how would I spend a mammoth bankroll of donor cash to reconquer our unruly, downwardly mobile American males?
From Slate ● May 21, 2025
Reconquista takes its name from the successful effort by Christian leaders to reconquer vast parts of the Iberian peninsula from its Islamic rulers and expel Muslims during the Middle Ages.
From Washington Times ● May 5, 2023
This duality was exemplified in the reign of the emperor Justinian, who sought to reconquer the old empire.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
"In the AD910s, around the time this coin was struck, you've got King Edward the Elder moving east and north to reconquer East Anglia, which the Vikings held since they did-in King Edmund."
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2022
“Now they think I’m crazy! I thought you wanted humans to come help you reconquer your planet! You could’ve had two more!”
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
Still, many husbands know that nature often succeeds in rendering nugatory the most subtle calculations, and reconquers the rights which they have striven to frustrate.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg
And England will sit snug while France reconquers Europe.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
He then reconquers his father’s kingdom and marries Rymenhild.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
The Soviets reconquered it in 1943 and 1944.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2024
In a video, the Ukrainian president called it a "place of victory" that would never be reconquered.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2023
The Safavid armies quickly reconquered Khorasan from the Uzbeks and moved on to Azerbaijan.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Up north, the capital of Kyiv remains free, and the Ukrainian army has even reconquered some key neighborhoods and forced Russian troops further away from that beleaguered city.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2022
He told me that he had overthrown General Ffangg and reconquered Lyttyrboks with lightning speed—only to have been betrayed.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
This peace did not last, however, and Khosrow moved westward into Byzantine territory while Justinian was preoccupied with reconquering Italy.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
These creatures are how the Targaryens conquered the Seven Kingdoms in the first place, so there’s certainly some precedent for reconquering it with them.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2019
The regime began reconquering opposition territory—and in January, 2018, it set its sights on Idlib province.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
The tradition, which dates back to the 1300s, originates from a legend involving Christians reconquering the town under the cover of darkness and covered in moss to camouflage themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2013
By reconquering its full sovereignty on the 10th of August, the nation invested the Convention with the powers necessary for judging the one-time King.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue
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