'Reclaim' definitions:

Definition of 'reclaim'

(from WordNet)
verb
Claim back [syn: reclaim, repossess]
verb
Reuse (materials from waste products) [syn: reclaim, recover]
verb
Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" [syn: reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify]
verb
Make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes"
verb
Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn: domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame]

Definition of 'Reclaim'

From: GCIDE
  • Reclaim \Re*claim"\ (r[=e]*kl[=a]m"), v. t. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. [1913 Webster]
  • A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. --W. Coxe. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Reclaim'

From: GCIDE
  • Reclaim \Re*claim"\ (r[-e]*kl[=a]m"), v. i.
  • 1. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. [1913 Webster]
  • Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it. --Waterland. [1913 Webster]
  • At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton. --Bain. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform. [1913 Webster]
  • They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, Grieving to see his glory, . . . took envy. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To draw back; to give way. [R. & Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Reclaim'

From: GCIDE
  • Reclaim \Re*claim"\ (r[-e]*kl[=a]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reclaimed (r[-e]*kl[=a]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reclaiming.] [F. r['e]clamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See Claim.]
  • 1. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. [1913 Webster]
  • The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 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." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. [1913 Webster]
  • It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To correct; to reform; -- said of things. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial. --Sir E. Hoby. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To exclaim against; to gainsay. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Reclaim'

From: GCIDE
  • Reclaim \Re*claim"\, n. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'reclaim'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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