Definition of Reclaim

Verb: reclaim ri'kleym or ree'kleym

Claim back
- repossess
Reuse (materials from waste products)
- recover
Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
"The Church reclaimed me";
- reform, regenerate, rectify
Make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
"The people reclaimed the marshes"
Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
"reclaim falcons";
- domesticate, domesticize, domesticise [Brit], tame