Definitions For Capturing

noun

  • The act of taking and holding someone as a prisoner or of being taken as a prisoner
  • The act of getting control of something
  • The act of putting information in a form that a computer can use or read

verb

  • To take and hold (someone) as a prisoner especially by using force
  • To catch (an animal)
  • To get control of (a place) especially by using force

Is Capturing a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
19

The word Capturing is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Capturing in a Sentence

  • The capture of the city by enemy forces
  • A Spanish treasure ship was the most valuable capture ever taken by that privateer
  • They were captured by enemy soldiers.
  • Using traps to capture mice
  • The city was captured by the Romans.

Antonyms for Capturing

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