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RECLAIM

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

Example:

reclaim falcons

Synonyms:

domesticate; domesticise; domesticize; reclaim; tame

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "reclaim" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

domesticate; tame (make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reclaim"):

break; break in (make submissive, obedient, or useful)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state

Example:

The people reclaimed the marshes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "reclaim" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reclamation (the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Example:

reform your conduct

Synonyms:

reclaim; rectify; reform; regenerate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "reclaim" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

reform; see the light; straighten out (change for the better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reclaim"):

moralise; moralize (improve the morals of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

reclamation (rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Reuse (materials from waste products)

Synonyms:

reclaim; recover

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "reclaim" is one way to...):

recycle; reprocess; reuse (use again after processing)

"Reclaim" entails doing...:

preserve; save (to keep up and reserve for personal or special use)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reclamation (the recovery of useful substances from waste products)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Claim back

Synonyms:

reclaim; repossess

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "reclaim" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reclaim"):

distrain (legally take something in place of a debt payment)

foreclose (subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

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