reclaim

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɹɪˈkleɪm/|/ɹiːˈkleɪm/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The calling back of a hawk. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  2. The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame […].
  3. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something. countable,uncountable
  4. Clipping of baggage reclaim. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,countable,uncountable
  5. Material recovered from something that has already been used. countable,uncountable
    — Is it okay to smoke cannabis reclaim?
动词 v.
  1. To return land to a suitable condition for use. transitive
  2. To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle. transitive
  3. To claim something back; to repossess. transitive
  4. To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform. dated,transitive
    — His Highneſſe pleaſure is that he ſhould liue, And be reclaim’d with princely lenitie.
  5. To tame or domesticate a wild animal. archaic,transitive
    — an eagle well reclaimed
  6. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. archaic,transitive
    — They were the head-strong horses, who hurried Octavius […] along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
  7. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. archaic,transitive
    — True it is he was very wild in his youth till God (the best Chymick who can fix quicksilver it self) gratiously reclaim'd him
  8. To draw back; to give way. obsolete,rare
    — Yet would he not perswaded be for ought, Ne from his currish will a whit reclame.
  9. To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session. Scotland,intransitive
  10. To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
    — Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.

词形变化

reclaims present,singular,third-person reclaiming participle,present reclaimed participle,past reclaimed past reclaims plural

词汇关系

衍生词
reclaimable reclaimableness reclaimably reclaimant reclaimer reclaimless reclaim one's time reclamation unreclaiming baggage reclaim

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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