1. reclaim - Noun
2. reclaim - Verb
To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
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.
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.
To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
To exclaim against; to gainsay.
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
To draw back; to give way.
The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. Thomas Henry Huxley
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world. Etty Hillesum
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. Isaac Barrow
Once the rice is pudding, it's too late to reclaim the rice. Indonesian Proverb
We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today. Ghana Proverb
We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward. Ghana Proverb