(v. t.) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
(v. t.) To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
(v. t.) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
(v. t.) To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals.
(v. t.) Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.
(v. t.) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
(v. t.) To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
(v. t.) To exclaim against; to gainsay.
(v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
(v. i.) To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
(v. i.) To draw back; to give way.
(n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some women attended the protest wearing jeans and T-shirts, while others took the mission of reclaiming the word "slut" – one of the stated objectives of the movement – more literally and turned out in overtly provocative fishnets and stilettos.
(2) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
(3) The unremitting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days is certainly testament to that.” In a week of what residents have described as the worst airstrike campaign since the start of the civil war in Syria , forces loyal to Assad have begun the early stages of a ground offensive aimed at reclaiming eastern Aleppo, which has been under opposition control since 2012.
(4) On Saturday morning in Adelaide, someone put the finishing touches to their “all girls must finish kindy before marriage” sign; a woman donned her cow suit painted with the message “don’t halal me”; and the Australia First Party stacked their “Multiculturalism Means Death” flyers before joining a thousand other Reclaim Australia supporters in Elder Park.
(5) There is also the question of which political party Reclaim will throw its support behind.
(6) There have been succession of schisms which have left Reclaim Australia without anyone clearly in charge, and there were relatively small numbers at the most recent rallies which, at least in larger cities, were outnumbered by counter-protesters.
(7) The truth of the redemption of all things in Christ, which is the message of the life-giving cross, must be reclaimed (Colossians 1:20; John 3:16).
(8) In practice, the individual executive will pay all expenses incurred – personal and business – and then reclaim the business expenses from the bank.” It said the bank had been “returned to financial health” in the past five years.
(9) He said: “Fifa remains committed to the reform process, which is critical to reclaiming public trust.
(10) But Rubio’s Pac, Reclaim America, hopes to benefit from wealthy individual donors including the Miami car dealer Norman Braman, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, who is believed to have pledged at least $10m.
(11) "Owning" the ageing process instead of fighting it makes it easier to value our older selves, and reclaim – both individually and together – a sense of the lifecycle.
(12) That centre ground is a true and positive Euroscepticism and it is essential to reclaim it.
(13) Police used capsicum spray in the protests that saw UPF, Reclaim Australia , Rally Against Racism and United Against Islamophobia holding separate protests and clashing with each other.
(14) The past year has also witnessed the rise of ultra rightwing movements such as Reclaim Australia and the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), the local offshoot of a party inspired by the Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders.
(15) Boyling used the name Jim Sutton between 1995 and 2000 in the campaign Reclaim the Streets, which organised nonviolent protests against cars, such as blocking roads and holding street parties.
(16) Later, I go to nearby Eden for the opening night of Reclaim the Dancefloor.
(17) There is nothing in this list of principles which supports labels such as “racists” and “bigots” – the labels which are so quickly attributed to Reclaim Australia’s supporters.
(18) Six months after closing down the News of the World, he bids to reclaim at least 2 million of his Sunday readers with a seventh-day Sun, to "build on the Sun's proud heritage".
(19) Without the leftist counter-demonstration on Easter Saturday, it is unlikely that the Reclaim Australia protesters would have obtained significant attention.
(20) Most importantly, the idea of a fringe distant from the mainstream obscures the complex ideological and organisational links between movements like Reclaim and mainstream politics.
(a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
(a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
(a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
(a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
(a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
(v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
(v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
(v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
(v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
(v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
(v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
(v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(2) Muscle wasting in MYD may be explained by these abnormalities as well.
(3) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(4) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(5) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(6) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(7) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(8) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(9) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(10) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
(11) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
(12) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
(13) In the end, prisons are all about wasting human life and will always be places that take things away.
(14) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
(15) Any surplus food left over goes to anaerobic digestion energy plants, which turn food waste into electricity.
(16) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
(17) The observed differences in Na excretion suggest that this aldosterone hypersecretion may be of pathophysiological importance as a protection against inappropriate renal waste of Na during the early phase of endotoxin-induced fever.
(18) Hyperbilirubinaemia in newborn infants is generally regarded as a problem, and bilirubin itself as toxic metabolic waste, but the high frequency in newborn infants suggests that the excess of neonatal bilirubin may have a positive function.
(19) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
(20) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."