Swedish Meaning of reclaim
återkräva
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Definitions and Meaning of reclaim in English
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
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.
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.
reclaim (n.)
The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
FAQs About the word reclaim
återkräva
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
återerövra,återhämta,återvinna,hämta,få tillbaka,återfå,återfå,återtagande,återta,minnas
förlora,förlägga,förlägga
reckoning => uträkning, reckoner => Räknare, reckoned => beräknat, reckon => tro, recklessness => hänsynslöshet,
