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

1. transitive verb. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
2. transitive verb. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
3. transitive verb. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
4. transitive 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.
5. transitive 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.
6. transitive verb. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
7. transitive verb. To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
8. transitive verb. To exclaim against; to gainsay.
9. intransitive verb. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
10. intransitive verb. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
11. intransitive verb. To draw back; to give way.
12. noun. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
13. verb. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

    "He tames lions for the circus"

    "reclaim falcons"

    Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame

14. verb. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state

    "The people reclaimed the marshes"

15. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: rectify, reform, regenerate

16. verb. reuse (materials from waste products)

    Synonyms: recover

17. verb. claim back

    Synonyms: repossess

Synonyms

domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame, rectify, reform, regenerate, recover, repossess

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in reclaim:

calmier, claimer, milacre, miracle

Common word forms

reclaims, reclaimed, reclaimer, reclaiming, reclaimable, reclaimless, reclaimment

Words from these letters

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