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Meaning of 'reclaim' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Reclaim [ n.]
- The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
2 . Reclaim [ v. i.]
- To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
- To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
- To draw back; to give way.
3 . Reclaim [ v. t.]
- To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
- To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
- To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
- 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.
- Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.
- To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
- To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
- To exclaim against; to gainsay.

Meaning of 'reclaim' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . reclaim [ v]
Meaning (1):
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
Example in sentence:
  • He tames lions for the circus;
  • reclaim falcons
Meaning (2):
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
Example in sentence:
  • reform your conduct;
  • The Church reformed me
Meaning (3):
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
Example in sentence:
  • The people reclaimed the marshes

Nearby Words:

recadency recalcitrant recalcitrate recalcitration recall recallable recallment recant recantation recanted

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