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- Reclaim - v. t. - To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
- Reclaim - v. t. - To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
- Reclaim - v. t. - To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
- Reclaim - v. t. - To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals.
- Reclaim - v. t. - Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.
- Reclaim - v. t. - To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
- Reclaim - v. t. - To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
- Reclaim - v. t. - To exclaim against; to gainsay.
- Reclaim - v. i. - To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
- Reclaim - v. i. - To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
- Reclaim - v. i. - To draw back; to give way.
- Reclaim - n. - The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
- Reclaimable - a. - That may be reclaimed.
- Reclaimant - n. - One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.
- Reclaimed - imp. & p. p. - of Reclaim
- Reclaimer - n. - One who reclaims.
- Reclaiming - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Reclaim
- Reclaimless - a. - That can not be reclaimed.
- Reclaim - v. t. - Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.
- Domesticate - a. - To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
- Dereliction - n. - The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment.
- Civilize - v. t. - To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.