RECLAIM
Dictionary entry overview: What does reclaim mean?
• RECLAIM (verb)
The verb RECLAIM has 5 senses:
1. claim back
2. reuse (materials from waste products)
3. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
4. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
5. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
Familiarity information: RECLAIM used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
• RECLAIM (verb)
Meaning:
Claim back
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
reclaim; repossess
Hypernyms (to "reclaim" is one way to...):
acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reclaim"):
distrain (legally take something in place of a debt payment)
foreclose (subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Meaning:
Reuse (materials from waste products)
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
reclaim; recover
Hypernyms (to "reclaim" is one way to...):
recycle; reprocess; reuse (use again after processing)
"Reclaim" entails doing...:
preserve; save (to keep up and reserve for personal or special use)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
reform; regenerate; rectify; reclaim
Context examples:
The Church reformed me / reform your conduct
Hypernyms (to "reclaim" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reclaim"):
moralise; moralize (improve the morals of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The people reclaimed the marshes
Hypernyms (to "reclaim" is one way to...):
change over; convert (change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
domesticise; domesticize; domesticate; tame; reclaim
Context examples:
He tames lions for the circus / reclaim falcons
Hypernyms (to "reclaim" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reclaim"):
break; break in (make submissive, obedient, or useful)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
