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Reclaim vs Reassume - What's the difference?

reclaim | reassume |

As verbs the difference between reclaim and reassume

is that reclaim is (senseid)to return land to a suitable condition for use while reassume is to resume, to carry on (a practice, thought, occupation etc) again.

As a noun reclaim

is (obsolete|falconry) the calling back of a hawk.

reclaim

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (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
    • They, hardened more by what might most reclaim , / Grieving to see his glory took envy.
  • * Rogers
    • It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
  • * Sir E. Hoby
    • Your error, in time reclaimed , will be venial.
  • To claim something back; to repossess.
  • To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
  • * Dryden
    • an eagle well reclaimed
  • To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  • * Dryden
    • The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
  • To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
  • * Waterland
    • Scripture reclaims', and the whole Catholic church ' reclaims , and Christian ears would not hear it.
  • * Bain
    • At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.
    (Fuller)
  • (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
    • (Spenser)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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:
    • The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].
  • An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

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    reassume

    English

    Verb

    (reassum)
  • To resume, to carry on (a practice, thought, occupation etc.) again.
  • To take on or adopt again.
    • The next day he reassumed his disguise.
    The British reassumed control of the region.
  • To take back into one's possession.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • What some lament of, we rather should rejoyce at, should rather praise this pious forwardnes among men, to reassume the ill deputed care of their Religion into their own hands again.

    Synonyms

    * resume

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