capturing
SayKAP-sher-ing/ˈkæp.ʃəɹ.ɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of capture.
The documentary team spent weeks capturing footage of the annual migration.
Capturing the rival's stronghold became the army's main objective that winter.
Note
The -ing form drops the silent e of capture and keeps the verb's transitive grip. Even as a gerund it takes a direct object, as in capturing the stronghold or capturing a knight in chess. That is the quickest way to tell it from the noun capture, which needs of: the capture of the stronghold. The gerund keeps the act in motion, while the noun names it as a single event.
capturing is a form of capture
capture, verb: To take control of someone or something by force or by a clever plan. Full entry
- Spelling
- capture → capturing: drop the e, add -ing
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