reconquer
verb (used with object)
to conquer again.
have reconquered
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present perfectof reconquer.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Rise, and return with us into my kingdom, that I have reconquered from the proud usurper who had made himself master of it.'
From Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon
Oswald was fond of this sensation of danger; it supports the weight of affliction, it reconciles us, for a moment, with that life which we have reconquered, and which it so easy to lose.
From Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy by R. S. Greig
No village now exists above the Raudal of Mura; and here, as in many other parts of the colonies, the natives may be said to have reconquered the country from the Spaniards.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
It would have reconquered these outer parts at its leisure: and Poland was a sure bastion.
From Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" by Hilaire Belloc
"The Austrians have reconquered Lombardy and the whole of Italy, and, if the French do not intervene, will soon be at peace."
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey
