Definition of reclaim

noun (n)

• The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• claim back (verb.possession)

  Synonym: repossess
  

  source: wordnet30
• reuse (materials from waste products) (verb.possession)

  Synonym: recover
  

  source: wordnet30
• bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one (verb.change)

  Synonym: rectify, reform, regenerate
  

  source: wordnet30
• make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state (verb.change)

  Example:
  The people reclaimed the marshes.
  

  source: wordnet30
• overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable (verb.change)

  Synonym: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame
  

  Example:
  Reclaim falcons.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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