reclaim
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
claim back
Types & categories
Sense 2 verb
reuse (materials from waste products)
Types & categories
- reprocess hypernym
Related & opposite
- reclamation derivation
- save entails
Sense 3 verb
bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
The Church reformed me
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- reclamation derivation
- correction derivation
- reform derivation
- reformer derivation
- reformatory derivation
- see the light verb group
Sense 4 verb
make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
The people reclaimed the marshes
Types & categories
- convert hypernym
Related & opposite
- reclamation derivation
Sense 5 verb
overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
He tames lions for the circus
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- tamer derivation
- tamable derivation
- animal domain topic
- domesticate verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | get |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | distrain |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | foreclose |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | reclamation |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | save |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | reprocess |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reclamation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | correction |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reform |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reformer |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reformatory |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | see the light |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | moralize |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | reclamation |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | convert |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | tamer |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | tamable |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | animal |
| 5 | verb group | Related & opposite | domesticate |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | break in |