Antonyms for reclaim
rɪˈkleɪmre·claim

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1. reclaim

   Antonyms:
   vitiate, corrupt, sterilize, worsen

   Synonyms:
   reform, recal, recover, regain, rescue, restore, amend, convert, better

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1. reclaim, repossessverb

   claim back

   Synonyms:
   domesticize, tame, reform, regenerate, repossess, domesticate, domesticise, take back, recover, rectify

2. reclaim, recoververb

   reuse (materials from waste products)

   Synonyms:
   recover, recuperate, regenerate, tame, domesticize, retrieve, convalesce, go back, rectify, domesticise, domesticate, reform, regain, repossess, find, recoup

3. reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectifyverb

   bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

   "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"

   Synonyms:
   refine, recover, right, repair, tame, renew, domesticize, regenerate, restore, correct, rectify, domesticise, domesticate, reform, revitalize, amend, straighten out, repossess, remedy, rejuvenate, remediate, see the light

4. reclaimverb

   make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state

   "The people reclaimed the marshes"

   Synonyms:
   domesticize, tame, reform, regenerate, repossess, domesticate, domesticise, recover, rectify

5. domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tameverb

   overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

   "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"

   Synonyms:
   recover, chasten, naturalise, cultivate, domesticize, regenerate, naturalize, moderate, rectify, domesticise, domesticate, tone down, repossess, tame, reform, subdue

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1. reclaimverb

   Synonyms:
   tame, domesticate, reform

How to use reclaim in a sentence?

1. Somsak Piriyayota:

   We have a government policy to reclaim forests - from investors, but not from poor people. With shrimp farmers, it's generally investors.

2. Renee Howard:

   She was trying to reclaim her freedom! She was probably thinking, ‘They’re gonna kill me,'.

3. Kelly Burke:

   Our position is to remove the border wall, reclaim and restore the habitats, rivers, wildlife corridors, and tribal lands that were in many cases literally blown apart, and to support equitable, humane, and comprehensive immigration reform.

4. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

   I was not satisfied with the early efforts in that regard, and so we are looking at different ways to achieve the same strategic objectives, which is the right one, which is to enable capable motivated forces on the ground to retake territory from ISIL and reclaim Syrian territory from extremism so we have devised a number of different approaches to that going forward.

5. Jennifer Araoz:

   Fortunately, The Child Victims Act now affords survivors like me legal recourse, today I am exercising my rights under that law. Today I am starting to reclaim my power.

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