Definitions for the word "reclaim" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To exclaim against; to gainsay.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
To draw back; to give way.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v.
1 seek the return of (one''s property, rights, etc.). 2 bring (land) under cultivation, esp. From being under water. 3 win back or away from vice, error, or a waste condition. reclaimable adj. Reclamation n. [latin reclamare cry out against]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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