RECLAIM
\ɹɪklˈe͡ɪm], \ɹɪklˈeɪm], \ɹ_ɪ_k_l_ˈeɪ_m]\
Definitions of RECLAIM
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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overcome the wildness of (an animal); make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
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make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes"
By Princeton University
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To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
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To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
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To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
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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.
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To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
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To exclaim against; to gainsay.
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To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
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To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
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To draw back; to give way.
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The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
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To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.
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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.
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To correct; to reform; - said of things.
By Oddity Software
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To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
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To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
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To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
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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.
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To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
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To exclaim against; to gainsay.
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To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
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To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
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To draw back; to give way.
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The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
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To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.
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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.
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To correct; to reform; - said of things.
By Noah Webster.
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Ably.
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To demand the return of; as, to reclaim one's money; reform; as to reclaim a drunkard; bring under cultivation; as, to reclaim land.
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Reclaimable.
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Reclaimer.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Ably.
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To demand the return of: to regain: to bring back from a wild or barbarous state, or from error or vice: to bring into a state of cultivation: to bring into the desired condition: to make tame or gentle: to reform.
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To cry out or exclaim.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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