Reclaim

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To bring into or return to a suitable condition for use, as cultivation or habitation: reclaim marshlands; reclaim strip-mined land.
  • v. To procure (usable substances) from refuse or waste products.
  • v. To bring back, as from error, to a right or proper course; reform. See Synonyms at save1.
  • v. To tame (a falcon, for example).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To return land to a suitable condition for use.
  • v. To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
  • v. To return someone to a proper course of action; to reform.
  • v. To claim something back; to repossess.
  • v. To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
  • n. The calling back of a hawk.
  • n. The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
  • n. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
  • v. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
  • v. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  • v. 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.
  • v. 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
  • v. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
  • v. To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
  • v. To exclaim against; to gainsay.
  • verb-intransitive. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
  • verb-intransitive. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
  • verb-intransitive. To draw back; to give way.
  • n. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cry out; exclaim against something.
  • In Scots law, to appeal from a judgment of the lord ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
  • To draw back; give way.
  • To effect reformation.
  • To cry out against; contradict; gainsay.
  • To call back; call upon to return; recall; urge backward.
  • To claim the return or restoration of; demand renewed possession of; attempt to regain: as, to reclaim one's rights or property.
  • To effect the return or restoration of; get back or restore by effort; regain; recover.
  • In falconry, to draw back; recover.
  • To bring under restraint or within close limits; check; restrain; hold back.
  • To draw back from error or wrong-doing; bring to a proper state of mind; reform.
  • To bring to a subdued or ameliorated state; make amenable to control or use; reduce to obedience, as a wild animal; tame; subdue; also, to fit for cultivation, as wild or marshy land.
  • To call or cry out again; repeat the utterance of; sound back; reverberate.
  • Synonyms and To recover, regain, restore, amend, correct.
  • n. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed, in any sense; reclamation; recall; restoration; reformation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. claim back
  • v. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
  • v. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
  • v. reuse (materials from waste products)
  • v. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    convert    recycle    reuse    reprocess   
    Cross Reference
    reform    tame    civilize    reclaimed animals   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    correct    reform    restore    amend    recover    gainsay    contradict    reclamation    recovery   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ame    Boehme    Graeme    Mayme    Sejm    acclaim    aflame    aim    ashame    ballgame   
    Same Context
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