transitive verb

1. to rescue or bring back (a person or people) from error, vice, etc. to ways of living or thinking regarded as right; reform
2. to make (wasteland, desert, etc.) capable of being cultivated or lived on, as by filling, ditching, or irrigating
3. to recover (useful materials) from waste products
4. Obsolete to tame or subdue (a hawk)

Etymology: ME reclaimen < OFr réclamer < L reclamare, to cry out against: see re- & claim

noun