Reclaim vs Unreclaimed - What's the difference?
reclaim | unreclaimed |
(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.
Not reclaimed.
*{{quote-book, year=1858, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It is a creek only by courtesy or an Americanism, at the present day; but when those miles of fertile fields upon the north were unreclaimed , the dank herbage hindered evaporation, and Easton's Pond was fed by unfailing streams. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Algernon Blackwood, title=The Wendigo, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive. }}
As a verb reclaim
is (senseid)to return land to a suitable condition for use.As a noun reclaim
is (obsolete|falconry) the calling back of a hawk.As an adjective unreclaimed is
not reclaimed.reclaim
English
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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- (Spenser)
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
* *unreclaimed
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Adjective
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