Sekirov Dictionary

reclaim

/ɹɪˈkleɪm/

verb10

  1. To claim something back; to repossess.
  2. To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
  3. To return land to a suitable condition for use.
  4. To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
  5. (old-fashioned) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
  6. (Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
  7. (no longer used) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
  8. (no longer used) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  9. (no longer used) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
  10. (no longer used, rare) To draw back; to give way.
reclaim
/ˈɹiːkleɪm/

noun5

  1. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
  2. Clipping of baggage reclaim.
  3. Material recovered from something that has already been used.
  4. (no longer used) The calling back of a hawk.
  5. (no longer used) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
forms

reclaimed · reclaiming · reclaimeth · reclaims · reclaimest

Phrases with reclaim

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