Reclaim

[rɪ'kleɪm] or [rɪ'klem]

Definition

(verb.) make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; 'The people reclaimed the marshes'.

(verb.) reuse (materials from waste products).

(verb.) claim back.

Edited by Hilda--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

(v. t.) To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.

(v. t.) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

(v. t.) 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. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

(v. t.) To correct; to reform; -- said of things.

(v. t.) To exclaim against; to gainsay.

(v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

(v. i.) To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

(v. i.) To draw back; to give way.

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

Inputed by Fidel

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Reform.[2]. Regain, recover, restore, reinstate.

Inputed by Joanna

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Reform, recal, recover, regain, rescue, restore, amend, convert, better

ANT:Vitiate, corrupt, sterilize, worsen

Typist: Sol

Definition

v.t. to demand the return of: to regain: to bring back from a wild or barbarous state or from error or vice: to bring into a state of cultivation: to bring into the desired condition: to make tame or gentle: to reform.—v.i. to cry out or exclaim: (Scots law) to appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.—adj. Reclaim′able that may be reclaimed or reformed.—adv. Reclaim′ably.—ns. Reclaim′ant one who reclaims; Reclamā′tion act of reclaiming: state of being reclaimed as of waste land: demand: recovery.

Checker: Wayne

Examples

Typed by Deirdre

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