Clues for the word "RECLAIM"

We've had 19 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 35 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on August 25, 2024.

Definition of reclaim

v. t. - To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
v. t. - To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
v. t. - To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
v. t. - 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.
v. t. - 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.
v. t. - To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
v. t. - To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
v. t. - To exclaim against; to gainsay.
v. i. - To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
v. i. - To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
v. i. - To draw back; to give way.
n. - The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.