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reclaim

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɹɪˈkleɪm/

Verb

transitive dated archaic obsolete rare Scotland intransitive

(transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use. / (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle. / (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.

Japanese Meaning

土地を使用可能な状態へと戻すために再生すること / 廃棄物から有用な製品を回収して再利用すること / 何かを取り戻す、または再所有すること

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工場が閉鎖された後、ボランティアたちは汚染された農地を再生して再び作物に利用できるように取り組んだ。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.

Sense（2）

(transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

Sense（3）

(transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.

Sense（4）

(transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.

His Highneſſe pleaſure is that he ſhould liue,

And be reclaim’d with princely lenitie.

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Sense（5）

(transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

an eagle well reclaimed

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Sense（6）

They were the head-strong horses, who hurried Octavius […] along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.

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Sense（7）

(transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not bear it.

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Sense（8）

(obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.

Yet would he not perswaded be for ought,

Ne from his currish will a whit reclame.

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Sense（9）

(intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

Sense（10）

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.

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reclaims

（ present singular third-person ）

reclaiming

（ participle present ）

reclaimed

（ participle past ）

reclaimed

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