reclaim (v.)

  1. claim back

    [ Syn: repossess ]

  2. reuse (materials from waste products)

    [ Syn: recover ]

  3. 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

    [ Syn: reform , regenerate , rectify ]

  4. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; The people reclaimed the marshes'

  5. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; He tames lions for the circus; reclaim falcons

    [ Syn: domesticate , domesticize , domesticise , tame ]

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