Definition of "retook" [retook]

• Past tense of retake. (verb)

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• "When the Muslim Saladin retook Jerusalem 90 years later, there was no slaughter."
• "French ship, which he retook from the English, after she had been three days in their possession."
• "After that, dead silence: and the poor devil left in the trenches to digest that "retook"!"