When soldiers recapture an area of land or a place, they gain control of it again from an opposing army who had taken it from them.

When people recapture something that they have lost to a competitor, they get it back again.

To recapture a person or animal which has escaped from somewhere means to catch them again.

When you recapture something such as an experience, emotion, or a quality that you had in the past, you experience it again. When something recaptures an experience for you, it makes you remember it.