Crossword-Solution: RECLAIM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Reclaim | v. t. | To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. |
| Reclaim | v. t. | To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. |
| Reclaim | v. t. | To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. |
| Reclaim | 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. |
| Reclaim | 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. |
| Reclaim | v. t. | To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. |
| Reclaim | v. t. | To correct; to reform; -- said of things. |
| Reclaim | v. t. | To exclaim against; to gainsay. |
| Reclaim | v. i. | To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. |
| Reclaim | v. i. | To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform. |
| Reclaim | v. i. | To draw back; to give way. |
| Reclaim | n. | The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RECLAIM | anagram | CLAIMER, MIRACLE |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with RECLAIM (5)
Possibly you have heard of me.” “My wife came to your house to reclaim her father? Yes!” The word “wife” seemed to serve as a gloomy reminder to Defarge, to say with sudden impatience, “In the name of that sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine, why did you come to France?” “You heard me say why, a minute ago.
And now we are going back, Victory and I, with the men and the munitions and power to reclaim England for her queen.
Many of the wives started off immediately in pursuit of their errant husbands, and it took the Government a considerable time and much trouble to reclaim them from their fruitless quests along the banks of the Oxus, the Gobi Desert, the Orenburg steppe, and other outlandish places.
From the distinction between possession and property arise two sorts of rights: the jus in re, the right in a thing, the right by which I may reclaim the property which I have acquired, in whatever hands I find it; and the jus ad rem, the right TO a thing, which gives me a claim to become a proprietor.
But we reclaim youths from the slovenliness of their native village or workshop and make them tidy and mannerly citizens." These remarks came to mind the other day as I watched a group of New England youths lounging on the steps of the village store, or sitting in rows on a neighboring fence, until I longed to try if even a judicial arrangement of tacks, 'business-end up,' on these favorite seats would infuse any energy into their movements.
Quotes with RECLAIM (3)
We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, th…
We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent; his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil. For without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. Nay, an honest man can do no good upon those …
Dont ever let anybody throw you away. You are not junk. When God looks at you, He sees things that everybody else ignores. You are worth so much that it took Jesus to Calvary to salvage and reclaim you. You are a seed of greatness.. Wake up sleeping giant
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Used 8 times in crossword archives (1942–2018).