Definition 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.