Reclaim

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1. Verb

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

2. Verb

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

3. Verb

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

4. Verb

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.

5. Verb

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.

6. Verb

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

7. Verb

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

8. Verb

To exclaim against; to gainsay.

9. Verb

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

10. Verb

To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

11. Verb

To draw back; to give way.

12. Noun

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

13. Verb

reuse (materials from waste products)
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science

14. Verb

bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
Vocabulary classified under Education
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