Associations to the word «Reclaim»

Wiktionary

RECLAIM, verb. ​(transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
RECLAIM, verb. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
RECLAIM, verb. (transitive) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
RECLAIM, verb. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
RECLAIM, verb. (transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
RECLAIM, verb. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
RECLAIM, verb. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
RECLAIM, verb. (obsolete) (rare) To draw back; to give way.
RECLAIM, noun. (obsolete) (falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
RECLAIM, noun. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
RECLAIM, noun. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

Dictionary definition

RECLAIM, verb. Claim back.
RECLAIM, verb. Reuse (materials from waste products).
RECLAIM, 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".
RECLAIM, verb. Make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes".
RECLAIM, verb. Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons".

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.