Reclaim

Quick meaning: Reclaim is a verb meaning (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.

Meaning

(transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
2. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
3. (transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
4. (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
5. (transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
6. (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
7. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.

Example Sentences

an eagle well reclaimed

Your errour, in time reclaimed, will be veniall.

His Highneſſe pleaſure is that he ſhould liue, And be reclaim’d with princely lenitie.

They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, / Grieving to see his glory […] took envy.

Word Forms

• reclaims
• reclaiming
• reclaimed

Synonyms for reclaim

Depending on context, synonyms include recover, repossess.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include recover, repossess, recovery, resume, retrieve, regain.

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