reconquer
verb (used with object)
to conquer again.
had reconquered
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past perfectof reconquer.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A week earlier, the Army had reconquered the town.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
Perceval lay the night in the castle he had reconquered for his mother, and the morrow, when he was armed, he departed.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
They were the Hemerlingues, father and son, who had reconquered his Highness and were carrying him in triumph to Paris.
From The Nabob, Volume 1 by George Burnham Ives
After their occupation of Egypt, they began to overrun North Africa, which Justinian, little more than a century earlier, had reconquered from the Vandals.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
Though 50 years later, when Judah under Amaziah and Uzziah had reconquered the Edomites, and Elath was rebuilt, this navigation, as it seems, was again set in motion, this restoration was of no long continuance.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Max Duncker
