Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
The calling back of a hawk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: falconry, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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noun
The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Clipping of baggage reclaim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
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noun
Material recovered from something that has already been used.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To return land to a suitable condition for use.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To claim something back; to repossess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, transitive
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verb
To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To draw back; to give way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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verb
To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, intransitive
Topics: law
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verb
To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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verb
overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, tame
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: break in, break
verb
make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: convert
verb
bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: reform, regenerate, rectify
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: moralize, moralise
verb
reuse (materials from waste products)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: recover
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: recycle, reprocess, reuse
verb
claim back
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: repossess
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: get, acquire
Narrower terms: distrain, foreclose
History
From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.
Across languages
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
