"reclaiming" in the verb sense
1. reclaim, repossess
claim back
2. reclaim, recover
reuse (materials from waste products)
3. reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
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"
4. reclaim
make useful again transform from a useless or uncultivated state
"The people reclaimed the marshes"
5. domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
overcome the wildness of make docile and tractable
"He tames lions for the circus"
"reclaim falcons"
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