及物动词

1. 要求归还（或恢复）；收回
If you reclaim something that you have lost or that has been taken away from you, you succeed in getting it back.

2. 收回;拿回;申请退（税）
If you reclaim an amount of money, for example tax that you have paid, you claim it back.

3. 开垦（荒地）；开拓（耕地或建筑用地）
When people reclaim land, they make it suitable for a purpose such as farming or building, for example by draining it or by building a barrier against the sea.

4. 使（农田、建筑用地）重新变成（沙漠、森林或海洋）
If a piece of land that was used for farming or building is reclaimed by a desert, forest, or the sea, it turns back into desert, forest, or sea.

5. 挽救;感化
If you reclaim a person who has been involved in bad or criminal behaviour, you cause them to stop acting in that way.

1. overcome the wildness of
make docile and tractable

e.g. He tames lions for the circus
reclaim falcons

Synonym: domesticatedomesticizedomesticisetame

2. make useful again
transform from a useless or uncultivated state

e.g. The people reclaimed the marshes

3. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

e.g. The Church reformed me
reform your conduct

Synonym: reformregeneraterectify

4. reuse (materials from waste products)

Synonym: recover

5. claim back

Synonym: repossess