ENGLISH: reclaim - CREOLE: reklame



Overview of verb reclaim



The verb reclaim has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (2) reclaim, repossess -- (claim back)

2. reclaim, recover -- (reuse (materials from waste products))

3. reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify -- (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")

4. reclaim -- (make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes")

5. domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame -- (overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons")

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