Reclaim vs Claimed - What's the difference?
reclaim | claimed |
(senseid)To return land to a suitable condition for use.
To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
* Milton
* Rogers
* Sir E. Hoby
To claim something back; to repossess.
To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
* Dryden
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
* Dryden
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
* Waterland
* Bain
(obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
(obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
(obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
(claim)
A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
A new statement of truth made about something, usually when the statement has yet to be verified.
A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush)
(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
To demand ownership of.
To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
To demand ownership or right to use for land.
(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
* John Locke
To proclaim.
To call or name.
As verbs the difference between reclaim and claimed
is that reclaim is (senseid)to return land to a suitable condition for use while claimed is (claim).As a noun reclaim
is (obsolete|falconry) the calling back of a hawk.reclaim
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Verb
(en verb)- They, hardened more by what might most reclaim , / Grieving to see his glory took envy.
- It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
- Your error, in time reclaimed , will be venial.
- an eagle well reclaimed
- The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
- Scripture reclaims', and the whole Catholic church ' reclaims , and Christian ears would not hear it.
- At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.
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Noun
(en noun)- The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].
Anagrams
* *claimed
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * *claim
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Alternative forms
* claym (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Demand ownership of land not previously owned. One usually stakes a claim. * The legal sense. One usually makes a claim. SeeVerb
(en verb)- We must know how the first ruler, from whom anyone claims , came by his authority.
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