reclaim

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To bring into or return to a suitable condition for use, as cultivation or habitation: reclaim marshlands; reclaim strip-mined land.
2. v. To procure (usable substances) from refuse or waste products.
3. v. To bring back, as from error, to a right or proper course; reform. See Synonyms at save¹.
4. v. To tame (a falcon, for example).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cry out; exclaim against something.
2. In Scots law, to appeal from a judgment of the lord ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
3. To draw back; give way.
4. To effect reformation.
5. To cry out against; contradict; gainsay.
6. To call back; call upon to return; recall; urge backward.
7. To claim the return or restoration of; demand renewed possession of; attempt to regain: as, to reclaim one's rights or property.
8. To effect the return or restoration of; get back or restore by effort; regain; recover.
9. In falconry, to draw back; recover.
10. To bring under restraint or within close limits; check; restrain; hold back.
11. To draw back from error or wrong-doing; bring to a proper state of mind; reform.
12. To bring to a subdued or ameliorated state; make amenable to control or use; reduce to obedience, as a wild animal; tame; subdue; also, to fit for cultivation, as wild or marshy land.
13. To call or cry out again; repeat the utterance of; sound back; reverberate.
14. Synonyms and To recover, regain, restore, amend, correct.
15. n. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed, in any sense; reclamation; recall; restoration; reformation.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To return land to a suitable condition for use.
2. v. transitive To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
3. v. transitive To return someone to a proper course of action; to reform.
4. v. transitive To claim something back; to repossess.
5. v. transitive To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
6. n. obsolete, falconry The calling back of a hawk.
7. n. obsolete The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
8. n. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
2. v. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
3. v. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
4. v. 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.
5. v. 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
6. v. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
7. v. obsolete To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
8. v. obsolete To exclaim against; to gainsay.
9. v. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
10. v. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
11. v. R. & Obs. To draw back; to give way.
12. n. obsolete The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. claim back
2. v. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
3. v. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
4. v. reuse (materials from waste products)
5. v. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable