- to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
- to recover (substances) in a pure or usable form from refuse, discarded articles, etc.
- to bring back to a preferable manner of living, sound principles, ideas, etc.
- to tame.
- re-claim.
- to protest; object.
- reclamation: beyond reclaim.
- to claim or demand the return or restoration of, as a right, possession, etc.
- to claim again.
- to claim back
- to convert (desert, marsh, waste ground, etc) into land suitable for growing crops
- to recover (useful substances) from waste products
- to convert (someone) from sin, folly, vice, etc
- to render (a hawk or falcon) tame
- the act of reclaiming or state of being reclaimed
