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