meaning of reclaim
1. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
2. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
3. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
7. To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
8. To exclaim against; to gainsay.
9. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
10. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
11. To draw back; to give way.
12. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
13. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim
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Related Words
reclaim | reclaimable | reclaimant | reclaimed | reclaimer | reclaiming | reclaimless |
