reclaim
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman reclaimer (noun recleim), Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmāre.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
reclaim (third-person singular simple present reclaims, present participle reclaiming, simple past and past participle reclaimed)
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (transitive) To return someone to a proper course of action; to reform.
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
Translations[edit]
to recycle — see recycle
to repossess
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to tame or domesticate a wild animal — see tame
Noun[edit]
reclaim (plural reclaims)
- (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
- (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.