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reclaim
Found in thesaurus: acquire, get, recycle, reuse, reprocess, change, modify, alter, convert, change over
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reclaim
v.
demand the return of property; regain possession, repossess
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Reclaim
Reclaim, reclaiming or reclamation means "to get something back". It may refer to :
- Reclaimed word, or reappropriation, a word whose connotations have changed from pejorative to acceptable
- Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), an emissions trading program in California
- Reclaiming (Neopaganism), a Pagan earth-based spirituality movement
- Land reclamation
- Mine reclamation
- River reclamation
- Water reclamation
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reclaim
Verb
1. claim back
(synonym) repossess
(hypernym) get, acquire
(hyponym) distrain
2. of materials from waste products
(synonym) recover
(hypernym) recycle, reprocess, reuse
(entail) save, preserve
(derivation) reclamation
3. 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"
(synonym) reform, regenerate, rectify
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) moralize, moralise
(verb-group) reform, straighten out, see the light
(derivation) reclamation, reformation
4. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes"
(hypernym) convert, change over
(derivation) reclamation, renewal, rehabilitation
5. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
(synonym) domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, tame
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) break in, break
(verb-group) domesticate, tame
(classification) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
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reclaim
v.
získat zpět; vyzvednout si; vysušit; recyklovat
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reclaim
Czas.
odzyskiwać; odbierać; regenerować
