reclaim

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verb

1. claim back (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
repossess
• Hypernyms:
get, acquire
• Hyponyms:
distrain, foreclose
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something from somebody
2. reuse (materials from waste products)
• Syn:
recover
• Derivationally related forms:
reclamation
• Hypernyms:
recycle, reprocess, reuse
• Entailment:
save, preserve
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- The Church reformed me
- reform your conduct
• Syn:
reform, regenerate, rectify
• Derivationally related forms:
rectification (for: rectify), reclamation, reformative (for: reform), reformatory (for: reform), reform (for: reform), reformist (for: reform), reformation (for: reform)
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
moralize, moralise
• Verb Group:
reform, straighten out, see the light
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
4. make useful again;
transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- The people reclaimed the marshes
• Derivationally related forms:
reclamation
• Hypernyms:
convert
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
5. overcome the wildness of;
make docile and tractable
- He tames lions for the circus
- reclaim falcons
• Syn:
domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, tame
• Derivationally related forms:
tameable (for: tame), tamable (for: tame), tamer (for: tame)
• Topics:
animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
break in, break
• Verb Group:
domesticate, tame
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, tame, reform, regenerate, rectify, recover, repossess