reconquer
Americanverb (used with object)
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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 Kellogg, John Harvey
And England will sit snug while France reconquers Europe.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch
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 Biafran war ended in 1970, when Nigeria reconquered the breakaway region and expelled most of the European missionaries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
"While they may have become Christian, they still have to be reconquered by Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great," said Mr Marsden.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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
This three-part ensemble represented a Syria made by millennia of inhabitation, conquered and reconquered by empires and dynasties.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2020
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
The Christians of the Asturias had sprung from very small beginnings, but they were now increasing in strength, and they had the stimulating thought to spur them on, that they were reconquering their own land.
From The Moors in Spain by Lane-Poole, Stanley
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