Reclaim

Definitions: Reclaim

Reclaim

Verb

1. Claim back.

2. Of materials from waste products.

3. Make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reclaim" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Literature

Occupations

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RECLAIM

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Synonyms: Reclaim

Atonement

Verb: atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good; reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt.

Command

Claim, lay claim to, revendicate, reclaim.

Dueness

Demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case.

Penitence

Verb: repent, be sorry for; be penitent; Adjective: rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under; (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess; (disclose); humble oneself; beg pardon; (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes; (do penance); learn by experience.

Restoration

Redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve; rescue; (deliver).

Crosswords: Reclaim

That's right, the same plants and flowers that saw you crawl from the primordial soup will reclaim the planet. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you! (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles)

You're ready to reclaim your prize ("Too Gone Too Long"; performing artist: En Vogue)

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Books

• Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past (reference)

• Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Reclaim (reference)

• Reclaim My Place (reference)

• Reclaim the Streets (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Jungle growth attempting to reclaim the ancient city of Nan Madol.Credit: Small World.

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Civil Liberties

Czech Republic

In September 1999, Parliament passed a law to allow former Czechoslovak citizens who have lived in the country since 1993 to reclaim citizenship by simple declaration. (references)

Tajikistan

However, problems remained, including a small number of disputes regarding houses that were sold by departing fighters who since have attempted to reclaim their homes. (references)

Lebanon

Although some persons have begun to reclaim homes abandoned or damaged during the war, the vast majority of displaced persons have not attempted to reclaim and rebuild their property. (references)

Economic History

Macau

China refused to reclaim Macau however, hoping to settle the question of Hong Kong first. (references)

Belgium

The government may reclaim incentives if the investor fails to meet his employment commitments. (references)

Human Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Since the war, large numbers of citizens have been unable to reclaim their property, either privately or collectively owned, to which they had occupancy rights under the Communist system. (references)

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Expressions using "reclaim": baggage reclaim ♦ it is beyond reclaim ♦ luggage reclaim ♦ reclaim land from the sea. Additional references.

Albanian

rivendos (re establish, recondition, reconstruct, recuperate, redintegrate, redress, re-edify, reinstate, rejuvenate, renew, repair, replace, reproduce), restauroj (do up, re establish, rehabilitate, renew, restore), zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), përmirësoj (ameliorate, amend, better, cultivate, elevate, enrich, grade, improve, meliorate, mend, polish, refine, reform, strengthen, upgrade), përdor (apply, call forth, employ, exercise, exploit, manipulate, participate, take, use, utilize, wield), korrigjoj (blue pencil, correct, emend, make amends, re establish, readjust, rearrange, rectify, red pencil, reform, repair, retouch, retrieve, straighten, vet), korrigjim (amelioration, amendment, correction, emendation, equalization, readjustment, reclamation, rectification, redress, reform, reformation, repair, retrieval, vetting), bonifikoj (meliorate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حسن (advantage, alter, ameliorate, amend, beautiful, better, elaborate, extend, fine, handsome, improve, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, pretty, reform, season, upgrade, well), ‏عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, straighten, temper), ‏طلب (appeal, application, ask, call, call for, demand, desire, instance, memorial, ordain, order, place, quest, request, require, requisition, rush order, seek, tune), ‏طالب (applicant, claim, demand, scholar, school boy, schoolboy, student), ‏خضع (bend, bow, compel, conquer, hew, knuckle under, kowtow, reduce, steady, subdue, subject, subjugate, submit, subordinate, succumb, throw in one's hand, undergo, wash, yield), ‏إستصلح, ‏أصلح الارض, ‏أصلح (amend, fix, mend, overhaul, pacify, piece, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, refit, reform, rehabilitate, renovate, repair, retrieve, rig, right, see, set right), ‏رد الى الصواب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

регенерирам (recover, regenerate, retread), опитомявам (break in, domesticate, gentle, tame). (various references)

Chinese 

开垦 (reclamation), 墾 . (various references)

Czech

reformovat (reform), recyklovat (recycle), zkrotit (break, break in, quell), získat zpìt (regain, retrieve), zúrodnit (fertilize), napravit (correct, make good, manipulate, put right, redress, reform, remedy, repair, set, undo), kultivovat (cultivate, refine). (various references)

Danish

regenerat. (various references)

Dutch

ontwoekeren. (various references)

Esperanto

akiri pene. (various references)

Farsi 

مرمت کردن (Mend, Repair), نجات دادن (Deliver), زمین باءررادایرکردن , اصلاح کردن (Accommodate, Accord, Alter, Ameliorate, Correct, Emend, Improve, Modify, Remedy, Revise, Right), اصلاح شدن (Repent). (various references)

Finnish

regeneraatti. (various references)

French

recycler (recycle, retrain), régénérer (regenerate, replenish), régénéré (regenerate), mettre en valeur, défricher, bonifier (refund, reimburse, to remit), assainir (remedy), assécher, amender, acquérir péniblement. (various references)

German

zurückfordern (claim back, demand back, recall, to claim back, to reclaim), regenerieren (recover, recycle, regenerate, replenish, reshape, revitalize, to recycle, to regenerate, to rejuvenate, to reshape). (various references)

Greek 

ζητώ την απόδοση, επανορθώ (rectify, redress, rehabilitate, retrieve, right), αξιοποιώ (exploit, turn to one's advantage, utilise), ανασώζω, αναγεννημένο. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שביח קרקע (ameliorate), ל�"חזיר למוטב, לטיב (amend, better, improve). (various references)

Hungarian

visszakövetel (claim back), kigyógyít (cure, to cure). (various references)

Indonesian

memperoleh kembali. (various references)

Italian

reclamare (ask for, claim, complain, make a complaint, need). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

救出 (deliverance, extricate, rescue). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅうしゅつ (deliverance, extricate, rescue). (various references)

Korean 

개심. (various references)

Manx

lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manure, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up, season). (various references)

Pig Latin

eclaimray

Portuguese

regenerar (regenerate, renovate), recuperar (recover, recuperate, redeem, regain, restore, resume, retrieve). (various references)

Romanian

revendica (assert, claim, demand), repara (cobble, darn, doctor, fix, fix up, make amends for, make good, mend, overhaul, piece, readjust, rectify, redress, reduce, refit, renovate, repair, retrieve), reface (change, do over, do up, re establish, rebuild, recast, recondition, reconstruct, recover, recruit, redress, reform, remake, remodel, repair, restore, retread, retrieve), reclama (ask, call for, claim, demand, denounce, necessitate, need, repeat, require), valorifica (capitalize, develop, harness, improve, make capital out of, realize, revaluate, salvage, turn to account), corecta (castigate, correct, emend, improve, mend, read, rectify, redress, review, revise, right), asana (drain, improve, reorganize), îndrepta (aim, align, amend, bend, better, cast, chasten, correct, direct, drive, guide, head for, improve, lead, mend, point at, recover, redeem, redress, reduce, reform, remedy, right, send, set, shape, steer, straighten, tend, train, unbend), îmblânzi (curb, daunt, domesticate, gentle, humanize, manage, mellow, milden, pacify, propitiate, subdue, tame, train). (various references)

Russian 

требовать обратно, восстанавливать (back out, deoxidize, indispose, re establish, reactivate, reassure, rebuild, reconstruct, recover, re-create, recuperate, redintegrate, redress, reedify, reenable, re-enable, re-establish, refurbish, regain, reinstate, renew, renovate, revive, undelete, unremove), возражать (answer, controvert, demur, deprecate, except, mind, object, objected, objecting, oppugn, retort, stickle, take exception to, take objection, talk back, traverse), отзывать (call off, recall, withdraw), протестовать (demur, exclaim against, object, obtest, outcry, protest, protested, protesting, rebel, remonstrate), переделывать к лучшему, исправлять (amend, amending, correct, emend, fix, mend, re establish, readjust, rectify, rectifying, redeem, redress, red-short, remedy, repair, retrieve, revise), исправление (betterment, correction, emendation, feature update, feature updates, mending, reclamation, rectification, redress, reform, reformation, repair, retrieval). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vratiti (bring back, give back, hand back, pay back, refund, remand, render, replace, requite, restore, return, send back, take back, turn back), tražiti povraćaj, pripitomiti (domesticate, tame), povratiti (heave, reproduce, restore, resume, retrieve, vomit). (various references)

Spanish

regenerar (regenerate), reclamar (appeal, appeal for, ask for, call upon, claim, complain, demand, need, recall, reclaiming). (various references)

Swedish

återfordra. (various references)

Turkish

yola getirmek (chasten, discipline, sit, sit on), yeniden kullanmak, medenileştirmek (civilize, domesticate), iadesini istemek (call in), geri istemek (recall, want back), geri çağırmak (call back, recall), geliştirmek (advance, ameliorate, better, boom, build up, cultivate, develop, enlarge, evolve, improve, launch out, open up, soup up, work up), evcilleştirmek (domesticate, housebreak, tame), değerlendirmek (appraise, appreciate, comment, commentate, evaluate, form an estimate of, interpret, judge, parlay, peruse, recover, recycle, salvage, score, seize on, seize upon, size up), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), ıslah etmek (bowdlerize, chasten, grade up, improve, reform). (various references)

Ukranian 

виправляти (amend, beet, better, castigate, chasten, correct, emend, oversee, re establish, rectify, redress, reform, remedy, retrieve, touch up), виправлення (amendment, betterment, castigation, correction, emendation, reclamation, rectification, redress, reform, reformation, reparation, retrieval), освоювати, осво�"ння (familiarization), меліорувати (meliorate), меліорація (amelioration, betterment, improvement, melioration, reclamation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

beyond reclaim$ không thể cải tạo được, $past reclaim. (various references)

reclamare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "reclaim": reclaimable, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims. (additional references)

Words containing "reclaim": irreclaimable, irreclaimably, unreclaimable, unreclaimed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Reclaim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ercolani, raklaim, reclain, reclam, reclamar, reclamp, reclin, relain, Relcom, richain. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: claimer, miracle.

-1 letter: calmer, eclair, lacier, mailer, malice, marcel, remail.

-2 letters: aimer, amice, areic, ariel, camel, carle, ceria, claim, clear, clime, cream, crime, email, erica, ileac, lacer, lamer, macer, macle, maile, malic, melic, micra, miler, ramie, realm, relic.

-3 letters: acme, acre, alec, alme, amie, amir, aril, calm, came, care, carl, ceil, cire, clam, cram, earl, emic, emir, ilea, lace, laic, lair, lame, lari, lear, liar, lice, lier, lima, lime, lira, lire, mace, mail, mair, male, marc, mare, marl, meal, merl, mica, mice, mile, mire, race, rail, rale, rami, real, ream, rial, rice, riel, rile, rime.

-4 letters: ace, ail, aim, air, ale, ami, arc, are, arm, cam, car, cel, ear, elm, era, ice, ire, lac, lam, lar, lea, lei, lie, mac, mae, mar, mel, mil, mir, ram, rec, rei, rem, ria, rim.

-5 letters: ae, ai, al, am, ar, el, em, er, la, li, ma, me, mi, re.

+1 letter: claimers, clammier, creamily, metrical, micellar, millrace, miracles, reclaims.

+2 letters: acclaimer, bicameral, declaimer, empirical, exclaimer, marchlike, mercurial, millraces, numerical, overclaim, reclaimed, simulacre, tularemic.

+3 letters: acclaimers, acrylamide, aldermanic, allometric, alphameric, amerciable, calamaries, caramelise, caramelize, centralism, ceremonial, chimerical, chloramine, clambering, commercial, complainer, decemviral, declaimers, disclaimer, eremitical, exclaimers, germicidal, hermetical, lawrencium, marcelling, mercantile, mercurials, metrically, microscale, normalcies, overclaims, premedical, proclaimed, proclaimer, reclaiming, schmalzier, secularism, simulacres, unicameral, vermicular.

+4 letters: acromegalic, acrylamides, aeromedical, aeronomical, beclamoring, bimolecular, biometrical, blackmailer, calorimeter, calorimetry, caramelised, caramelises, caramelized, caramelizes, cavalierism, centralisms, ceremonials, chamberlain, chloramines, clericalism, climacteric, commercials, complainers, confirmable, criminalize, curtailment, demiurgical, diametrical, dimercaprol, disclaimers, elastomeric, embracingly, empirically, geometrical, incremental, infomercial, lamellicorn, lawrenciums, macronuclei, maledictory, malpractice, mariculture, marshalcies, matriculate, mercenarily, mercurially, meroblastic, microflorae, microscales, mineralogic, nonmetrical, numerically, overclaimed, paramedical, planimetric, problematic, proclaimers, reclaimable, reclamation, recommittal, retinaculum, schmaltzier, screamingly, secularisms, spermicidal, symmetrical, thermically, unempirical, unreclaimed, vermiculate.

+5 letters: acclimatizer, accomplisher, acromegalics, acromegalies, agrichemical, agrochemical, alphanumeric, arithmetical, asymmetrical, bicameralism, biomolecular, blackmailers, calorimeters, calorimetric, caramelising, caramelizing, cavalierisms, ceremonially, chamberlains, chimerically, clericalisms, climacterics, commercially, counterclaim, criminalized, criminalizes, curtailments, dermatologic, descrambling, dilatometric, dimercaprols, extramusical, hemerocallis, hermetically, heroicomical, hibernaculum, incomparable, infomercials, lamellicorns, malpractices, maricultures, matriculated, matriculates, melodramatic, mercantilism, mercantilist, meristically, mesmerically, metaphorical, meteorically, meteoritical, metrological, metronomical, microbalance, microcapsule, microcephaly, microclimate, microwavable, multinuclear, multitracked, nonempirical, nonmercurial, nonnumerical, overclaiming, paramedicals, polarimetric, preeclampsia, preeclamptic, problematics, reclamations, recommittals, semicircular, semitropical, uncommercial, unicamerally, vermiculated.

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