English > regain: 2 senses > verb 2, possession| Meaning | come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Model | They regain the money in the closet |
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| Synonym | find |
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| Narrower | fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover | Find unexpectedly |
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| feel | Find by testing or cautious exploration |
| locate, turn up | Discover the location of |
| rout up, rout out | Get or find by searching |
| Broader | get, acquire | Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract |
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| Opposite | lose | miss from one's possessions |
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| Similar to | find | Obtain through effort or management |
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| recover, retrieve, find, regain | get or find back |
| Spanish | encontrar, recobrar, recuperar |
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| Catalan | recuperar, trobar |
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