reclaim
noun
1. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
2. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
3. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
verb
1. claim back
Similar word(s): repossess
Definition categories: possession, acquire, get
2. reuse (materials from waste products)
Similar word(s): recover
Definition categories: possession, recycle, reprocess, reuse
3. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
Similar word(s): rectify, reform, regenerate
Definition categories: change, alter, modify
4. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- The people reclaimed the marshes
Definition categories: change, convert
5. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- reclaim falcons
Similar word(s): domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame