Definition of "reconquering" []

• Present participle of reconquer. (verb)

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• "While that army didn’t succeed in reconquering the island, they did manage to arrest Toussaint and ship him off to die in a French jail."
• "Mr. Scheuer presents him as nothing less than a latter-day Saladin — the hero who stopped Richard the Lionheart from reconquering Jerusalem."
• "By fielding an army for extended period of time Washington demonstrated that the British were incapable of reconquering the colonies."