Reclaim
verb — past tense: reclaimed ; past participle: reclaimed ; present participle: reclaiming ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to regain possession of; to gain back; to bring into use, to win back from error or sin, able to he reformed. to take action so as to recover possession of; to make usable, to reform (a person). to demand the return of) reclaim swamp land រាន (ដី)
Example: Dara reclaimed his pen at the lostand found office, to reclaim desert land by irrigation.reclaim salt from water ទាញយក - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) រាន (ដី), ទាញយក, បានមកវិញ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
verb — past tense: reclaimed ; past participle: reclaimed ; present participle: reclaiming ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
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- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 6.
- (TRANSITIVE) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
- 7.
- (TRANSITIVE) To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
- 8.
- (TRANSITIVE) To exclaim against; to gainsay.
- 9.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
- 10.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To draw back; to give way.