Definitions for reclaim

reclaim re·claim

Spelling: [ri-kleym]
IPA: /rɪˈkleɪm/

Reclaim is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 285 anagrams from letters in reclaim (aceilmr).

Definitions for reclaim

noun

  1. reclamation:

verb (used with object)

  1. to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
  2. to recover (substances) in a pure or usable form from refuse, discarded articles, etc.
  3. to bring back to a preferable manner of living, sound principles, ideas, etc.
  4. to tame.
  5. re-claim.
  6. to claim or demand the return or restoration of, as a right, possession, etc.
  7. to claim again.

verb (used without object)

  1. to protest; object.

Origin of reclaim

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English recla(i)men Old French reclamer (tonic stem reclaim-) Latin reclāmāre to cry out against, equivalent to re- re- + clāmāre to Examples for reclaim

Now, there is nothing a woman likes so much as to reclaim a man.

Officials have said the war to reclaim upward of a third of Iraq and a quarter of Syria from ISIS could take years.

His friends at Government House, bewildered at this change in him, sought to reclaim him.

Yet it must be said too, that if there be a woman in the world that can reclaim him, it is you.

When Gardner goes to Washington, will he reclaim his Tea Party roots and join hands with Texas Senator Ted Cruz?

Ohio is a must-win swing state for Republicans if they are to reclaim the White House.

In the face of these stereotypes, the Muslim Writers Collective is one attempt to reclaim the narrative of American Islam.

I cannot tell how she feels toward him; I know she has often tried to reclaim him from his deviltry.

To reclaim it, he had to move beyond established conventions about how a literary career should be conducted.

This man did his best to reclaim young Badman, and was particularly kind to him.

Word Value for reclaim
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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