verb
- Claim back.
- synonyms: repossess
- Reuse (materials from waste products.
- synonyms: recover
- Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.
- usage: "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
- synonyms: reform, regenerate, rectify
- Make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state.
- usage: "The people reclaimed the marshes"
- Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.
- usage: "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
- synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, tame
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