1. Take possession of something (esp. a house) when the present owner defaults on payments for it or on payments on a load secured on it
   "The bank reclaimed the car when the owner defaulted on payments";
   - repossess
    
2. Make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
   "The people reclaimed the marshes"
    
3. Reuse (materials from waste products)
   "The factory reclaimed plastic bottles to make new products";
   - recover
    
4. Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
   "The Church reclaimed me";
   - reform, regenerate
    
5. Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
   "reclaim falcons";
   - domesticate, domesticize, domesticise [Brit], tame

Derived forms: reclaims, reclaiming, reclaimed

Type of: acquire, alter, change, convert, get, modify, recycle, reprocess, reuse

Encyclopedia: Reclaim