reclaim

Verbs

  • (v) claim back repossess,
  • (v) reuse (materials from waste products) recover,
  • (v) 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
    reform, rectify, regenerate,
  • (v) make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
    • The people reclaimed the marshes
  • (v) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
    • He tames lions for the circus
    • reclaim falcons
    domesticise, domesticize, domesticate, tame,

Synonyms

repossess recover reform rectify regenerate domesticise domesticize domesticate tame

Words of close approximity

reclaimable reclaimed