Word Meaning

reclaim definition and meaning

v. t. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
v. t. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
v. t. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
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.
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.
v. t. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
v. t. To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
v. t. To exclaim against; to gainsay.
v. i. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
v. i. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
v. i. To draw back; to give way.
n. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

Crossword clues for reclaim

- Get back
- Recover (goods)
- Retrieve or recover
- Salvage
- Use again
- Win back