Definitions for the word, reclaim

(n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

(v. i.) To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

(v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

(v. i.) To draw back; to give way.

(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.

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

(v. t.) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

(v. t.) To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.

(v. t.) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

(v. t.) To correct; to reform; -- said of things.

(v. t.) To exclaim against; to gainsay.

(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.


144 words found in the Scrabble word, reclaim



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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