reclaim

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb claim back
  2. verb reuse (materials from waste products)
  3. verb bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

Etymology

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.

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Synonyms

repossess

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