reclaim

Plural: reclaims

Verb

Verb Forms: reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims

• To retrieve or recover; to make suitable for use again.
• claim back
• reuse (materials from waste products)
• bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
• make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
  • "The people reclaimed the marshes"
• overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
  • "reclaim falcons"
• To return land to a suitable condition for use.
• To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
• To claim something back; to repossess.
• To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
• To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
• To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
• To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
• To draw back; to give way.
• To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
• To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.

Noun

• The calling back of a hawk.
• The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
• An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
• baggage reclaim

Examples

• He tried to reclaim the letter ’S’ for a bingo, but his opponent played it first.
• Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.

Synonyms

domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, recover, rectify, reform, regenerate, repossess, tame

Anagrams of reclaim