Reclaim vs Reclaiming - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between reclaim and reclaiming

is that reclaim is (senseid)to return land to a suitable condition for use while reclaiming is .

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

(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)

(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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