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reclaim

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: reclaim

1
 v
claim back
2
 v
bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: reclaim
1

v claim back

Synonyms:
repossess
Types:
distrain
legally take something in place of a debt payment
foreclose
subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
Type of:
acquire, get
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

v make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state

“The people reclaimed the marshes”
Type of:
convert
change the nature, purpose, or function of something

v reuse (materials from waste products)

Synonyms:
recover
Type of:
recycle, reprocess, reuse
use again after processing
2

v bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

Synonyms:
rectify, reform, regenerate
reform, see the light, straighten out
change for the better
Types:
moralise, moralize
improve the morals of
Type of:
alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

v overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

“reclaim falcons”
Synonyms:
domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame
domesticate, tame
make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
Types:
break, break in
make submissive, obedient, or useful
Type of:
alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
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