reclaim

verb · nounB1

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verb
V_es/s
reclaims
V_ing/Gerund
reclaiming
V_ed/pp
reclaimed
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To return land to a suitable condition for use.

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

  3. 3.

    (transitive)To claim something back; to repossess.

  4. 4.

    (dated, transitive)To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.

  5. 5.

    (archaic, transitive)To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

  6. 6.

    (archaic, transitive)To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

  7. 7.

    (archaic, transitive)To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

  8. 8.

    (obsolete, rare)To draw back; to give way.

  9. 9.

    (Scotland, intransitive)(intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

  10. 10.

    (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.

    Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
reclaims
  1. 1.

    (countable, obsolete, uncountable)(obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.

  2. 2.

    (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.

  3. 3.

    (countable, uncountable)An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

  4. 4.

    (abbreviation, alt of, clipping, countable, uncountable)Clipping of baggage reclaim.

  5. 5.

    (countable, uncountable)Material recovered from something that has already been used.

    Is it okay to smoke cannabis reclaim?

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ine-pro From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.

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