Definition of Reclaim

Reclaim

To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.

To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

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.

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.

To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

To correct; to reform; -- said of things.

To exclaim against; to gainsay.

To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

To draw back; to give way.

The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

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Reclaim Quotations

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
Bob Geldof

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Paul Ryan

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
John Thorn

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.
Mark Lloyd

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
Dianne Feinstein

It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information.
Sherman Austin

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum

We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives.
Roger Andrew Taylor

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
Barbara Lee

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Reclaim Translations

reclaim in Dutch is ontwoekeren
reclaim in Italian is reclamare
reclaim in Spanish is reivindicar, declamar, reclamar

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