were recapturing
- past progressive of recapture.
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Roughly 1,000 years separated the fall of Rome and the beginning of the Renaissance, the period of “rebirth” in which certain Europeans believed they were recapturing the lost glory of the classical world.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020