Definitions for reclaim

Overview of verb reclaim

The verb reclaim has 5 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) reclaim, repossess

(claim back)

2. reclaim, recover

(reuse (materials from waste products))

3. 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")

4. reclaim

(make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes")

5. domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame

(overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons")