1. (v.t.)reclaim to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
2. reclaim to recover (substances) in a pure or usable form from refuse, discarded articles, etc.
3. reclaim to bring back to a more positive or wholesome way of life; rescue or reform.
4. reclaim to tame.
5. (n.)reclaim reclamation: beyond reclaim.
Etymology: (1250–1300; (v.) ME recla(i)men < OF reclamer (tonic s. reclaim-) < L reclāmāre to cry out against)
Definition of 'Reclaim'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)reclaim, repossess claim back
2. (verb)reclaim, recover reuse (materials from waste products)
3. (verb)reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify 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"
4. (verb)reclaim make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state "The people reclaimed the marshes"
5. (verb)domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
Definition of 'Reclaim'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Reclaim the act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery
2. (verb)Reclaim to claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of
3. (verb)Reclaim to call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call
4. (verb)Reclaim to call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting
5. (verb)Reclaim 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
6. (verb)Reclaim 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
7. (verb)Reclaim to call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform
8. (verb)Reclaim to correct; to reform; -- said of things
9. (verb)Reclaim to exclaim against; to gainsay
10. (verb)Reclaim to cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions
11. (verb)Reclaim to bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform
Sense: to ask for (something one owns which has been lost, stolen etc and found by someone else) A wallet has been found and can be reclaimed at the manager's office.
Definitions of Reclaim 
Afrikaans: opgehaal, opgetel
Arabic: يُطالِب بِحَق مَفْقود
Bulgarian: възстановявам
Brazilian: recuperar
Czech: žádat zpět, reklamovat
German: zurückfordern
Danish: få tilbage
Greek: ζητώ να μου επιστραφεί κτ
Spanish: reclamar
Estonian: tagasi küsima
Farsi: پس گرفتن
Finnish: hakea
French: réclamer
Hebrew: לִדרוֹש בְּחֲזָרָה
Hindi: पुन: प्राप्त करना
Croatian: zahtijevati natrag
Hungarian: visszakövetel, -igényel
Indonesian: meminta kembali
Icelandic: endurheimta
Italian: (chiedere la restituzione
Japanese: 取り戻す
Korean: 반환을 요구하다
Lithuanian: atsiimti
Latvian: pieprasīt atpakaļ
Malay: mendapatkan kembali
Dutch: trerugvorderen
Norwegian: få tilbake, avhente
Polish: dochodzić zwrotu, odebrać
Persian: پس گرفتن
Pashto: بياغوښتل، بياادعاكول، له 
Portuguese: recuperar
Romanian: a reclama
Russian: требовать обратно
Slovak: žiadať späť
Slovenian: zahtevati nazaj
Serbian: tražiti povraćaj
Swedish: återkräva
Thai: เรียกกลับคืน
Turkish: geri istemek/almak
Taiwanese: 領回
Ukrainian: просити повернути
Urdu: واپس لینا
Vietnamese: giành lại
Chinese: 找回，收回
