reclaimed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb claim back
    repossess; reclaim.
  2. verb reuse (materials from waste products)
    recover; reclaim.
  3. verb bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
    regenerate; rectify; reclaim; reform.
    • The Church reformed me
    • reform your conduct
  4. verb make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
    reclaim.
    • The people reclaimed the marshes
  5. verb overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
    domesticize; domesticise; tame; reclaim; domesticate.
    • He tames lions for the circus
    • reclaim falcons
  6. adjective satellite delivered from danger
    rescued.

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