French Meaning of reclaim

réclamer

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Definitions and Meaning of reclaim in English

Wordnet

reclaim (v)

claim back

reuse (materials from waste products)

bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state

overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

Webster

reclaim (v. t.)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

To exclaim against; to gainsay.

Webster

reclaim (v. i.)

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

To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

To draw back; to give way.

Webster

reclaim (n.)

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

FAQs About the word reclaim

réclamer

claim back, reuse (materials from waste products), bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one, make useful

reprendre,recouvrer,regagner,récupérer,récupérer,réacquérir,récupérer,reprendre,reprendre,se souvenir

perdre,égarer,égarer

reckoning => règlement, reckoner => Calculatrice, reckoned => compté, reckon => penser, recklessness => imprudence,