Definitions of reclaim:

  • verb:   of materials from waste products
  • verb:   claim back
  • verb:   make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
    Example: "The people reclaimed the marshes"
  • verb:   bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
  • verb:   overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
    Example: "Reclaim falcons"