transitive verb. To demand the restoration or return of (a possession, for example); claim again or back.

transitive verb. To require or deserve again.

transitive verb. To bring into or return to a suitable condition for use, as cultivation or habitation.

transitive verb. To procure (usable substances) from refuse or waste products; recycle.

transitive verb. To bring back, as from error, to a right or proper course; reform. synonym: save.

transitive verb. To use or reinterpret (a historically derogatory name or term) in a positive way, as in pride for one's social group.

transitive verb. To tame (a falcon, for example).

noun. Restoration to a previous or reformed state.

noun. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed, in any sense; reclamation; recall; restoration; reformation.

To cry out; exclaim against something.

In Scots law, to appeal from a judgment of the lord ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

To draw back; give way.

To effect reformation.

To cry out against; contradict; gainsay.

To call back; call upon to return; recall; urge backward.

To claim the return or restoration of; demand renewed possession of; attempt to regain: as, to reclaim one's rights or property.

To effect the return or restoration of; get back or restore by effort; regain; recover.

In falconry, to draw back; recover.

To bring under restraint or within close limits; check; restrain; hold back.

To draw back from error or wrong-doing; bring to a proper state of mind; reform.

To bring to a subdued or ameliorated state; make amenable to control or use; reduce to obedience, as a wild animal; tame; subdue; also, to fit for cultivation, as wild or marshy land.

To call or cry out again; repeat the utterance of; sound back; reverberate.

Synonyms and To recover, regain, restore, amend, correct.

intransitive verb. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

intransitive verb. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

intransitive verb. To draw back; to give way.

transitive verb. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

noun. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

transitive verb. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.

transitive verb. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. 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

transitive verb. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

transitive verb. To correct; to reform; -- said of things.

transitive verb. To exclaim against; to gainsay.

verb. To return land to a suitable condition for use.

verb. To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

verb. To return someone to a proper course of action; to reform.

verb. To claim something back; to repossess.

verb. To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

noun. The calling back of a hawk.

noun. The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.

noun. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

verb. claim back

verb. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

verb. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state

verb. reuse (materials from waste products)

verb. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

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