reclaim

1. (transitive)To return land to a suitable condition for use.

2. (transitive)To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

   reuse (materials from waste products)

3. (transitive)To claim something back; to repossess.

   claim back

4. (dated, transitive)To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.

5. (Scotland, intransitive)To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

6. To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.

   Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.

7. (archaic, transitive)To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

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

9. (archaic, transitive)To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

10. (obsolete, rare)To draw back; to give way.

1. This airport was built on reclaimed land.

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2. This table is made from reclaimed wood.

   deDieser Tisch besteht aus wiederverwertetem Holz.

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3. Nature has begun to reclaim these spaces.

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4. This city was built on reclaimed land.

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5. This building was built on reclaimed land.

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