Dictionary Entry
reclaim
reclaim is a 7-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
- 2transitive verb
To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
- 3transitive verb
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6transitive verb
To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
- 7transitive verb
To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
- 8transitive verb
To exclaim against; to gainsay.
- 9intransitive verb
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
- 10intransitive verb
To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
- 11intransitive verb
To draw back; to give way.
- 12noun
The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
- 13verb
overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
"He tames lions for the circus"
"reclaim falcons"
Synonyms
- 14verb
make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
"The people reclaimed the marshes"
- 15verb
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"
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- 16verb
reuse (materials from waste products)
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- 17verb
claim back
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