reclaim

Verb

  • (v.) reclaim, repossess (claim back)
  • (v.) reclaim, recover (reuse (materials from waste products))
  • (v.) reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify (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"
  • (v.) reclaim (make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state) "The people reclaimed the marshes"
  • (v.) domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame (overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable) "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
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