2. (verb)reclaim, recover reuse (materials from waste products)
3. (verb)reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evilcourse 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
3. (verb)reclaim to call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call
4. (verb)reclaim to callback 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
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.