Meaning Of Reclaim

v. t.

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

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

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

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.
v. t.

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.
v. t.

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

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

To exclaim against; to gainsay.
v. i.

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

To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
v. i.

To draw back; to give way.
n.

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