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
The territory they had reconquered from the invaders represented an area of about forty square kilometers.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Francis Trevelyan Miller
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
The antithesis: "he had reconquered his people, here the people have reconquered their king," was universally applauded.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
At Rome, clearly, he could not live with his wife until the Goths had reconquered the city, which was not likely to happen soon.
From Veranilda by George Gissing
