(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.
Wrecker
Definition:
(n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
(n.) One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.
(n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her transformation from marriage wrecker to part of the establishment has been “rapid and remarkable”.
(2) There were moments when lots of people had doubts whether our plans would work moments, as I was well aware, when people had doubts about me.” Osborne qualified his criticism of Corbyn’s Labour as the party of wreckers by warning the Tories that they must not become complacent.
(3) Tony Abbott has to decide whether he wants to return to Australia’s proud tradition of working constructively with partners like the US and China on tackling climate change or to continue to act as a wrecker of global cooperation,” shadow environment minister Mark Butler said.
(4) Shaoshan, the birthplace of the greatest wrecker of Chinese tradition, has become, in many ways, a repository of it.
(5) She has been economic with the truth about her home in South Africa and accused of being a "home–wrecker" because of an affair with a family friend.
(6) But with the Conservatives now matching their brazenly uncosted spending pledges with brazenly implausible claims that they will win a majority, it could be crucial in those Lib-Con marginals across the south-west and south-east where having wreckers or ideologues in government frightens the horses.
(7) Junior doctors' strike has become the mother of all deadlocks Read more Yet they must do all of that to avoid being seen as the unreasonable ones, the wreckers.
(8) The climate scientists came to regard him as a meddling, time-wasting and probably politically motivated wrecker, who rarely published his own papers and devoted his retirement to trashing theirs.
(9) But now it must make a tricky choice – to spurn the offer of an extension to Kyoto, which would paint it firmly as the villain, the wrecker of a deal and thus of the climate; or to move away from its entrenched opposition to a legally binding treaty, and start being treated more like a developed country.
(10) A lot of younger Corbynites, he went on, view these old-school operators as passionate idealists in the Jeremy mould rather than hard-left wreckers, which compounds other members’ increasing sense of desperation.
(11) Yet while the US media has been quick to trumpet any evidence of Facebook as the country's leading marriage-wrecker, the truth is "It's complicated," as the site's relationship status would have it.
(12) The nadir came in the 3,000m final when, just after half way, she collided with the American favourite, Mary Decker, who tumbled out of the race, leaving a wretched Budd to continue to a chorus of boos and finish seventh, forever branded Decker's wrecker.
(13) Circa 1985, in holding fast to the old maxim "no enemies on the left" and supporting the presence of Trotskyist wreckers in the Labour party, he rather did my head in – because I was fighting a gaggle of them who had moved into my constituency, hell-bent on taking over an essentially meaningless little branch of the Labour Party Young Socialists by being as unpleasant to other people as possible.
(14) Meanwhile, the anti-union Mail, Express and Sun have expressed their honeyed "understanding" for people they would normally castigate as wreckers and layabouts.
(15) Angela Merkel, Europe’s most powerful, values-oriented, refugee-welcoming and Putin-resisting leader, finally met Donald Trump , potential wrecker of the west and liberal democracy.
(16) The current crop of Labor members of parliament, they were wreckers in government and now they just want to wreck government.
(17) Both contenders abhorred the growing appeal of the mavericks, wreckers and so-called populists, but had little to say specifically in policy terms about how to combat anti-EU forces such Nigel Farage's Ukip, France's Front National, or the Freedom party of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
(18) "With renowned wreckers Mark van Bommel and Lucio on opposing sides, is this game not rife with battle fever?"
(19) Nancy teased Debo that invitations to writers and artists to stay had more to do with interiors than intellect: "They are terrible wreckers, worse than puppies and will give a mellow old look to the house in no time at all.
(20) While pictures of women branded as sluts, victims, home-wreckers (etc) stay accessible on the internet, job opportunities, new relationships, college entry and basic self-esteem are wrecked.