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Definition of Reclaim
1. Verb. Claim back.
2. Verb. Reuse (materials from waste products).
Generic synonyms: Recycle, Reprocess, Reuse
Entails: Preserve, Save
Derivative terms: Reclamation
3. Verb. Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one. "Reform your conduct"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Related verbs: Reform, See The Light, Straighten Out
Specialized synonyms: Moralise, Moralize
Derivative terms: Reclamation, Rectification, Reform, Reformation, Reformative, Reformatory, Reformist
4. Verb. Make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state. "The people reclaimed the marshes"
5. Verb. Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable. "Reclaim falcons"
Category relationships: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Break, Break In
Related verbs: Domesticate, Tame
Derivative terms: Tamable, Tameable, Tamer
Definition of Reclaim
1. v. t. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
2. v. t. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
3. v. i. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
4. n. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
Definition of Reclaim
1. Verb. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To return someone to a proper course of action; to reform. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal. ¹
6. Noun. (obsolete falconry) The calling back of a hawk. ¹
7. Noun. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back. ¹
8. Noun. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reclaim
1. to make suitable for cultivation or habitation [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Reclaim
1. 1. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. 2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. "The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . Along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them." (Dryden) 3. To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals. "An eagle well reclaimed." 4. Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labour, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc. 5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. "It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind." (Rogers) 6. To correct; to reform; said of things. "Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial." (Sir E. Hoby) 7. To exclaim against; to gainsay. Synonym: To reform, recover, restore, amend, correct. Origin: F. Reclamer, L. Reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. Re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See Claim. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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