Meaning of RECLAIM in English

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

Use in sentences of RECLAIM

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