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Reclaim

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The calling back of a hawk. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame […]."

  3. 3
    An effort to take something back, to reclaim something. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Clipping of baggage reclaim. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    Material recovered from something that has already been used. countable, uncountable

    "Is it okay to smoke cannabis reclaim?"

Verb
  1. 1
    To return land to a suitable condition for use. transitive
  2. 2
    overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable wordnet
  3. 3
    To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle. transitive
  4. 4
    make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state wordnet
  5. 5
    To claim something back; to repossess. transitive
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  1. 6
    bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one wordnet
  2. 7
    To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform. dated, transitive

    "His Highneſſe pleaſure is that he ſhould liue, And be reclaim’d with princely lenitie."

  3. 8
    reuse (materials from waste products) wordnet
  4. 9
    To tame or domesticate a wild animal. archaic, transitive

    "an eagle well reclaimed"

  5. 10
    claim back wordnet
  6. 11
    To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. archaic, transitive

    "They were the head-strong horses, who hurried Octavius […] along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them."

  7. 12
    To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. archaic, transitive

    "True it is he was very wild in his youth till God (the best Chymick who can fix quicksilver it self) gratiously reclaim'd him"

  8. 13
    To draw back; to give way. obsolete, rare

    "Yet would he not perswaded be for ought, Ne from his currish will a whit reclame."

  9. 14
    To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session. Scotland, intransitive
  10. 15
    To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.

    "Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.

Etymology 2

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.

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